Determinants of Geropsychiatric Inpatient Length of Stay
β Scribed by Karen Blank; Laurel Hixon; Cindy Gruman; Julie Robison; Gene Hickey; Harold I. Schwartz
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-2720
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A change in payment mechanism for inpatient care from per diem to per episode creates two incentives - a marginal and an average price effect - to change length of stay. The decrease in marginal price per day to zero should reduce the length of stay, while an increase in average price per inpatient
## Abstract ## Objectives To identify factors which may contribute to prolonged length of stay in an elderly psychiatric inpatient setting. ## Design Retrospective case note study. ## Methods A list of all patients over the age of 65 discharged from a private psychiatric hospital over a threeβ