Psychiatric Department, Hospital
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Treatment by psychiatric acute teams - as an alternative to admission in psychiatric acute wards - has been introduced in Norway, based on positive experience in other countries. The effect of establishing such acute teams in Norway has ... Read more...

[A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Due to long-term capacity problems in the psychiatric acute ward, we tried to canalise acute admissions due to life crises (and not serious mental disease) to a new short-term in-patient crisis unit. Our hypothesis was that the opening ... Read more...

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychiatric Department, Hospital'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis on inpatient psychiatry units. 30 Oct 2009
• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• [A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards] 6 Oct 2009
• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Patients who do well and who do less well in an inpatient adolescent unit. 30 Jul 2009
• [Differentiation of nursing tasks in psychiatric wards through new professions and additional training] 30 Jun 2009
• Drugs and Psychosis Project: a multi-centre European study on comorbidity. 29 Jun 2009
• Clinical effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral group treatment program for anxiety disorders: a benchmarking study. 16 Jun 2009
• Erectile dysfunction in a sample of patients attending a psychiatric outpatient department. 9 Jun 2009
• Brokering authenticity: Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of care in an American eating disorder clinic. 30 May 2009
• Medical and psychiatric comorbidity in psychiatric beds in general hospitals: a cross-sectional study in Tokyo. 30 May 2009
• Last episode psychosis. 30 May 2009
• [Factual contributions to the history of neuropsychiatry--Szent István Kórház, Budapest (1885-2008)] 28 May 2009
• Psychiatric consultation for post-liver-transplantation patients. 20 May 2009
• Mental capacity assessments among general hospital inpatients referred to a specialist liaison psychiatry service for older people. 9 May 2009
• [Tribute to Dr. István Mészáros--80 years of age] May 2009
• A comparison of two types of social support for mothers of mentally ill children. 29 Apr 2009
• [Psychiatric rehabilitation in Poland. Polish literature review from 1990-2007] 29 Apr 2009
• Nursing staff knowledge and attitudes towards deliberate self-harm in adults and adolescents in an inpatient setting. 25 Apr 2009
• [Liaison psychiatry: referrals in a University Clinic in Colombia] 21 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychiatric Department, Hospital'

Definition: Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services.

Descriptor UI: D011567

Alternative terms: Psychiatric Department, Hospital; Psychiatric Departments, Hospital; Department, Hospital Psychiatric; Departments, Hospital Psychiatric; Hospital Psychiatric Departments; Hospital Psychiatric Department;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.354.422.641; N04.452.442.422.641;

Online Note: use PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL to search HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENTS 1966-77

History Note: 78; was HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENTS 1966-77

Technical Notes: orderlies & ward attendants go under PSYCHIATRIC AIDES; DF: PSYCHIATR DEP