Psychiatric Services
- Volume 47
- Number 1
- January 1996
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages35–40The author describes his two years of experience as a physician reviewer for two managed care companies. With case examples, he illustrates how the training process and his early activities as a reviewer increased his awareness of the need for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.35Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages41–45OBJECTIVE: The long-term effects of a combination of clozapine and psychosocial treatment were evaluated in a sample of treatment- refractory state hospital patients with schizophrenia. METHODS: A repeated-measure design was used. Thirty-one patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages46–51OBJECTIVE: This study examined the combined effectiveness of clozapine and a comprehensive inpatient psychosocial rehabilitation program on the clinical functioning and aggressive behaviors of patients with chronic schizophrenia. METHODS: Two groups of 11 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages52–56OBJECTIVE: Clozapine is the only medication distributed in the U.S. through a national patient registry system that provides the medication only if results of patients' weekly blood tests show no evidence of significant white blood cell suppression, an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.52Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages57–61OBJECTIVE: Data from a cross-sectional survey of 210 current or former inpatients at Mississippi State Hospital and 197 informants, usually patients' family members, were used to compare the demographic, clinical, and service use characteristics of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.57Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages62–67OBJECTIVE: The study compared the quality of life of long-stay psychiatric patients after they had been discharged to community residences for one year with that of long-stay patients who remained hospitalized. METHODS: Long-stay patients (that is, those ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages68–74OBJECTIVE: The study sought to determine whether inpatient readmission rates differed for patients with substance use disorders who were treated in either hospital-based or community-based transitional residential care. Length of residential care and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.68Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages75–80OBJECTIVE: The study assessed the prevalence of severe aggressive behavior and conduct disorder in a population of runaway and homeless adolescents and examined relationships between aggression, conduct disorder, other problem behaviors, and background ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.75Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages81–83The Clozapine Resource Centre in British Columbia is a centralized information source for all physicians wishing to prescribe clozapine and also performs back-up hematological and compliance monitoring. Laboratories fax weekly hematology results to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.81Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages83–85Nine patients receiving a low dose (25 mg) and ten receiving a standard dose (150 mg) of depot haloperidol every four weeks were assessed every three months for two years. Patients also received targeted oral neuroleptics as needed. No significant between-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.83Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages86–88Reports of attempted or actual physical assaults by patients in the inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings of a psychiatric facility within a general hospital were prospectively surveyed during a one-year period. Among 397 patients discharged ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.47.1.86Publication date: 01 January 1996
Pages88–90A cross-sectional study of 1,551 clients receiving care in ten community-based rural mental health care systems assessed problem behaviors and psychiatric symptoms among three groups of severely mentally ill clients: those with a current substance abuse ...
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