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M Popper

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PubMed1990

Patterns and correlates of psychiatric hospitalization in a nationwide sample. II. Correlates of length of hospitalization and length of stay out of hospital.

A nationwide random sample of psychiatric patients (n = 832) admitted for hospitalization in Israel in 1980 was followed up until the end of 1984. A multivariate analysis was performed, where the dependent variables were: the cumulative length of all hospitalizations, the mean duration of hospitalization and the mean length of stay out of hospital. The independent variables were: age, sex, marital status, ethnic origin, diagnosis, and various indices of previous hospitalizations. For patients whose hospitalization in 1980 (index hospitalization) was the first in their life, older age and male gender predicted a low probability of readmission, and the diagnosis of schizophrenia a long cumulative stay. For patients whose index hospitalization was not the first in their life, the main variables predictive of long cumulative stay were: old age, being single, long duration and high frequency of previous hospitalizations. Patients tended to maintain the same relative length of inpatient stay and the same frequency of readmission from the beginning of their hospitalization history.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

The epidemiology of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in Israel.

The reasons for both voluntary and involuntary admissions of patients into psychiatric hospitals in Israel is discussed. An analysis is presented of the demographic and clinical features of those admitted during the period from 1983 to 1988.

Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders↗
PubMed1989

Patterns and correlates of psychiatric hospitalization in a nationwide sample. I. Patterns of hospitalization with special reference to the "new chronic" patients.

A nationwide random sample of psychiatric patients (n = 832) admitted for hospitalization in Israel in 1980 was followed up until the end of 1984 regarding their hospitalization patterns. Information about hospitalizations as well as demographic and diagnostic data were obtained from the Israel Central Psychiatric Case Register. Two main contrasting patterns of hospitalization emerged. One pattern consisted of a single short hospitalization during the entire follow-up period. This pattern was found among more than 50% of those patients for whom this hospitalization was the first in their life. The second pattern characterized the patients who accumulated long periods of inpatient stay, that is, at least one year during the follow-up period. These are the "new chronic" patients (about 30% of the total sample). About one third of these "new chronic" patients (8.2% of the total sample) accumulated their long stay through one continuous hospitalization, thus resembling the "old chronic" patients; two-thirds accumulated their long stay over several hospitalizations. Each patient has a fairly constant pattern of hospitalization, regarding the length of stay in hospital and out of hospital.

Chronic Disease↗
PubMed1977

Computer-assisted recording of the objective neurologic finding.

Main principles of a computerized data collection system of the objective neurologic finding are presented. In the course of the findings recording, the physician communicates with the computer by an alphanumerical display in an interactive mode. The recording procedure is suggested by the computer program. The data are stored for further processing and are available as a narrative printout. The program uses a driving data structure of tree-like organized medical expressions with some control and formating parameters assuring medically correct procedures.

Computers↗