The day hospital in old age psychiatry has many supporters and is widely felt to be a 'good thing'. This article suggests there is an opposing view and that more hard data are required before the argument is resolved. Other models of care are mentioned which may be equally valid-comparison between d
Psychiatry in the general hospital and the day hospital
โ Scribed by Asmus Finzen
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 459 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-2720
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The purpose of this article is to consider how the regional performance of general hospital psychiatry may be adequately monitored using routine information. Limitations on the types of information available for monitoring regional performance are discussed, in the context of the main functions whic
The day hospital constitutes an integral and valued component of the old age psychiatry service provided by the majority of units in the United Kingdom. Changes in the political climate, vogues for alternative forms of care provision and a lamentable lack of hard evidence that day hospitals present