Psychiatric Services
- Volume 35
- Number 12
- December 1984
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1984
Page1189In the conference report on new approaches to the treatment of chronic patients (October 1984 issue of H&CP, page 989), the results of one study discussed by John M. Kane, M.D., were cited incorrectly. They should have read, "7 percent of those who ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1189Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1195–1198Introduction by Steven S. Sharftein, M.D., column editor: In this era of prospective payment and efforts to contain medical care costs through increased efficiency, consultation-liaison psychiatry has high promise as one of the more cost-effective tools ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1195Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1201–1204Psychiatric hospitals must be regulated, and someone must write the rules, says the author. But the rules of such agencies as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Medicare are rarely subjected to rigorous testing, either for efficacy or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1201Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1205–1210The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals recently revised its Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (AMH), used to assess the quality of care at health institutions. The authors briefly examine the history of accreditation of hospital-based ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1205Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1211–1214During the past five years, the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (AMH) has undergone two separate but not entirely unrelated revisions: the incorporation of psychiatric and substance abuse standards, a step that allowed all hospital-based psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1211Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1215–1219Many authorities advocate neuroleptic-free periods for patients on chronic neuroleptics as a means of reducing the incidence or severity of tardive dyskinesia. This practice continues, despite the absence of any controlled clinical studies showing that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1215Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1220–1222The increasing number of deinstitutionalized patients in crisis are placing new demands on general hospital emergency rooms. The authors discuss the approaches used in staffing and operating a psychiatric emergency service at a large general hospital in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1220Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1223–1226Although appropriate evaluation, management, and treatment of violence-prone patients will tend to reduce the incidence of aggressive acts on a psychiatric ward, such measures are not enough to prevent eruptions of violence. The author discusses several ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1223Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1227–1229The emerging need for culturally appropriate services for ethnic populations has generated several cross-cultural training programs for mental health professionals but little data on how such training affects the delivery of mental health services. An ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.35.12.1227Publication date: 01 December 1984
Pages1234–1236Dorothea Dix strongly believed that the government owes its destitute and defective members shelter and humane treatment. She played a direct role in founding 32 state hospitals. Her strength was that she took the time to notice the pain and suffering of ...
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