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E G Doherty

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PubMed1977

Medical malpractice and negligence. Sociodemographic characteristics of claimants and nonclaimants.

We compared a sample of 200 patients who filed a claim of malpractice or negligence against a large urban teaching hospital and its physicians, with a randomly drawn sample of 549 patients who had never filed a claim against the hospital. The two groups were compared on distributions by race, religion, occupation, age, and sex. In proportion to their representation in the control group, whites filed significantly more claims than nonwhites (P less than .001), Jewish people filed more claims than Protestants, and blue-collar workers brought fewer claims than white-collar or retired/unemployed workers. Claimants were significantly older than nonclaimants (P less than .05). Women filed a statistically nonsignificant greater number of claims than men did (P greater than .20).

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PubMed1976

Length of hospitalization on a short-term therapeutic community. A multivariate study by sex across time.

Patient length of hospitalization was examined in a private short-term therapeutic community unit using a longitudinal, multimethod, -ultivariate approach, with data analyzed separately by patient sex. Patient data were entered into stepwise linear regression analyses for weeks 1, 2, and 4 of an average seven-week hospitalization for male and female patients separately. Results for men were not specifically replicated among the women. Longer-staying men were diagnosed more frequently as "personality disorders," tended to be somewhat aloof, perceived the ward as encouraging denial, facade, order, and organization. Among women, verbal behavior, interpersonal relations, discontentedness with family, and other variables were related to length of hospitalization. Shorter-staying male and female patients tended to exhibit characteristics at the "feminine" end of a hypothetical masculinity-femininity continuum. Conforming, accepting behavior seemed reinforced for all patients.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Labeling effects in psychiatric hospitalization. A study of diverging patterns of inpatient self-labeling processes.

This report explores two theoretical positions regarding psychiatric inpatient self-labeling processes over time. One position suggests that acceptance of the deviant label "mentally ill" is benign; the other suggests that such label acceptance may be harmful to patients. Employing empirical, longitudinal data from a sample of 43 inpatients, three complex, but discernible, patterns of "acceptance," "rejection," or "denial" of the "deviant" label of mental patient emerged over time within a short-term hospital setting. The three patient groups varied on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales, staff behavioral ratings over time, involvement in approved ward activities, and length of hospitalization. Results were discussed in terms of patient-staff interaction and its possible relation to patient self-labeling.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

Patients referred to extended inpatient treatment or outpatient therapy from a private short-term therapeutic community.

An exploratory, longitudinal, multimethod examination of characteristics of short-term therapeutic community patients suggests that male and femal patients receiving recommendations for further extended hospitalization were the relatively younger, more docile, conforming, and good patients who appreciated their hospital experience and the unit. Diagnostic, biographical, and staff ratings were not improtant predictors of referral patterns.

Adult↗