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The Effect on State Hospitalization of a Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center

JACK A. WOLFORD, JOHN HITCHCOCK, DAVID L. ELLISON, ANNE C. SONIS, and FRED SMITHAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 129, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.129.2.202

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The authors used comparative rates of slate hospitalization to measure the effect of their mental health/mental retardation center. Census tracts from their catchment area were matched with census tracts from an area that does not have such a center but that is served by the same state hospital. Lower rates of admissions to the state hospital and decreased chronic hospitalization were found in the catchment area population, and the center's activities were found to be related to these changes.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 129 • Number 2 • August 1972

Pages: 202 - 206

PubMed: 5041061

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Published in print: August 1972

Published online: 1 April 2006

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JACK A. WOLFORD

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JOHN HITCHCOCK

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DAVID L. ELLISON

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ANNE C. SONIS

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FRED SMITH

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Professor and Chief of Social Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Western Psychiatric Institute Community Study Center

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Research Social Worker, University of Pittsburgh

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The Effect on State Hospitalization of a Community Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center

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