## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: Short‐stay units (SSUs) provide an alternative to traditional inpatient services for patients with short anticipated hospital stays. Yet little is known about which patient types predict SSU success. ## OBJECTIVE: To describe patients admitted to our hospitalist‐run SS
Length of stay for psychiatric inpatient services: A comparison of admissions of people with and without developmental disabilities
✍ Scribed by Haider Saeed; Hélène Ouellette-Kuntz; Heather Stuart; Philip Burge
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 811 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-3308
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