Glick I D, Hargreaves W A, Drues J, Showstack J A
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1976 Jan;33(1):78-83. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1976.01770010046009.
A controlled, prospective, two-year follow-up study examined the relative effectiveness of short-term vs long-term psychiatric hospitalization. Results of the inpatient phase for a sample of 74 nonschizophrenic patients are reported here. About four weeks after admission the patients hospitalized for a short stay were discharged, and at that time were functioning better than the patients in the long-stay group. When the patients hospitalized for a long stay were discharged, three to fur months after admission, they were then functioning as well as, but not noticeably better than, the patients in the short-stay group had been at their earlier time of discharge. Patients with affective disorders were more impaired at admission and improved more than patients with other diagnoses, regardless of length of stay.
一项对照性前瞻性两年随访研究考察了短期与长期精神科住院治疗的相对有效性。本文报告了74名非精神分裂症患者样本的住院阶段结果。入院约四周后，短期住院的患者出院，此时他们的功能状态比长期住院组患者更好。长期住院的患者在入院三到四个月后出院时，其功能状态与短期住院组患者较早出院时相当，但并无明显改善。无论住院时间长短，情感障碍患者入院时受损更严重，改善程度也超过其他诊断的患者。
