Psychiatric Services
- Volume 38
- Number 3
- March 1987
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages255–263Rapidly rising health care costs, a growing surplus of physicians, and recent federal legislation have created a more competitive health care market and have led to rapid growth in the number of health maintenance organizations, or HMOs. HMOs may place ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.255Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages263–269A study to determine patient characteristics that are predictive of treatment costs was conducted at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital of the University of California, Los Angeles. Using nursing care time utilized and length of stay as measures ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.263Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages270–273In the aftermath of a successful class-action suit on behalf of seriously mentally ill patients, the Arizona legislature set into law five pilot projects to test a proposed system of care based on cinical teams, prepaid funding, and independent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.270Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages274–277High familial expressed emotion, which may be a specific form of social overstimulation, has been linked to schizophrenic relapse and rehospitalization. Research on expressed emotion has led to a new generation of demonstrably effective family treatments ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.274Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages277–281Geriatric patients with psychiatric disorders are highly treatable in an acute general hospital setting, but they require special attention in assessment, treatment, and discharge planning. Assessment must include the active involvement of a broad ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.277Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages282–286Severely physically disabled individuals, advocates for the disabled, and rehabilitation and mental health professionals were surveyed to determine their perceptions of the need for services for 12 mental health problems encountered by persons with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.282Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages287–291Executive directors of Oregon's 36 community mental health programs were surveyed in the fall of 1983 to determine the nature of psychiatric services offered and the roles played by psychiatrists. The study showed that a total of 18.2 full-time-equivalent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.287Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages292–299Based on information provided by 149 runaways staying in a Canadian shelter, the authors developed a model that explains repetitious running away as the result of youths' cognitive confusion and unrealistic beliefs. The majority of the youths, who had run ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.38.3.292Publication date: 01 March 1987
Pages300–303Concurrent review is a rapidly growing phenomenon that negatively affects the nature and quantity of work done by quality assurance and utilization review programs while generating increased costs to hospitals. It has also sapped the time and energy of ...
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