Psychiatric Services
- Volume 54
- Number 7
- July 2003
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Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages958–959Introduction by the column editor: It is gratifying to be able to offer such a fine article for this column on the topic of a program to change seclusion and restraint practices in a children's hospital. In doing so, the journal is also supporting the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.958Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages960–962Introduction by the column editors: Supported employment is an evidence-based practice for people with serious mental illness (). Among supported employment services, individual placement and support is a model whose efficacy has been convincingly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.960Other Articles
Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages969–975Medicaid now funds more than half of public mental health services administered by states and could account for two-thirds of such spending by 2017. This trend and others represent a major shift in the predominant model by which public mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.969Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages976–980OBJECTIVES: The issue of whether telepsychiatry is worth the cost or whether it pays for itself is controversial. This study investigated this question by reviewing telepsychiatry literature that focused on cost. METHODS: Approximately 380 studies on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.976Correction
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Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages981–986OBJECTIVES: This study examined rates of interest in creating psychiatric advance directives among individuals at risk of psychiatric crises in which these directives might be used and variables associated with interest in the directives. METHODS: The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.981Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages987–993OBJECTIVES: This study examined characteristics associated with the use of seclusion and restraint among 442 psychiatrically hospitalized youths and sought to quantify changing trends in the rates of these modalities of treatment over time after the 1999 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.987Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages994–998OBJECTIVE: The authors examined rates and predictors of rehospitalization among 180 adolescents followed up for up to 10.3 years after discharge from an inpatient psychiatric unit. METHODS: In this prospective, naturalistic study, demographic variables, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.994Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages999–1005OBJECTIVES: Persons with schizophrenia are heavy and persistent users of Medicaid services. Interruptions in their Medicaid coverage may have serious consequences for the mental health of these individuals and their subsequent use of mental health ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.999Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1006–1011OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether long-term benzodiazepine use is associated with dose escalation. METHODS: The authors examined changes in dose and the frequency of dose escalation among new and continuing (at least two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1006Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1012–1016OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which psychosis, disordered impulse control, and psychopathy contribute to assaults among psychiatric inpatients. METHODS: The authors used a semistructured interview to elicit reasons for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1012Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1017–1021OBJECTIVE: In order to effectively plan and implement psychiatric services, a clear estimate of the prevalence and distribution of the population in need is required. The authors examined the use of administrative data as a means of estimating the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1017Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1022–1027OBJECTIVES: This study examined the incidence of, and variables associated with, relocation trauma among 85 patients who moved from long-stay psychiatric wards to community care units as part of a hospital closure in Melbourne, Australia. METHODS: Some ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1022Brief Report
Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1028–1030A six-month cohort of general adult psychiatric inpatients was followed for up to two years to evaluate outcome and contrast the validity of DSM-IV measures of adaptive functioning—the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), the Social and Occupational ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1028Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1031–1033Despite increased emphasis on the quality of health care and on the dissemination of information about quality to the public, expectations are equivocal about consumers' interest in such information. A total of 110 psychiatric outpatients were asked about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.54.7.1031Publication date: 01 July 2003
Pages1034–1037This study was a chart review and clinician survey of social, clinical, and service use characteristics among all Fuzhounese patients at a mental health clinic in New York's Chinatown from 1998 through 2000. Of a total of 216 clinic patients, 63 (29 ...
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