Psychiatric Services
- Volume 28
- Number 12
- December 1977
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages889–894Eighty therapists, the entire attending staff of a community mental health center, were interviewed to assess their perceptions of the center's interdisciplinary peer review system after it had been in operation for three and a half years. While many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.889Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages894–897Rhode Island instituted a catastrophic health insurance plan in January 1975. The state division of health insurance was concerned about the amount of money spent for psychiatric services during the first year—$98,000 of the total $516,000 spent on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.894Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages898–900The author describes his role as the only child psychiatrist member of a psychiatric peer review committee in a medical care foundation. In addition to working with his colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.898Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages901–903The author discusses the use of the psychiatric audit system developed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals in conducting retrospective reviews of various aspects of patient care. Treatment or procedures reflected in the medical record ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.901Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages903–906The psychiatric medical records of adolescents admitted to a major county receiving hospital over a six-month period were reviewed to discover the patterns of care. While 92 patients were admitted, medical records for only 56 were available from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.903Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages907–908The Weed problem-oriented medical record has been modified for use in a state psychiatric hospital that has a large proportion of long-term patients and uses an interdisciplinary team approach to treatment. Three new record forms were developed during a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.907Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages909–911After numerous deficiencies were found in a psychiatric center's medical records, a task force devised a system that incorporated the four components of the problem-oriented medical record plus other elements required by the center's structure. They ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.28.12.909Publication date: 01 December 1977
Pages911–913The authors present guidelines for writing family therapy records that are not only clinically meaningful but also not unnecessarily damaging to a member of the family or the therapist in case the records are subpoenaed. They suggest that when deciding ...
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