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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 56
  • Number 6
  • June 2005

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Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages671–677

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to ascertain trends in mental health-related visits to U.S. emergency departments. METHODS: Data were obtained from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey by using mental health-related ICD-9-CM, E, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.671

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages678–684

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of high utilizers of psychiatric emergency services. METHODS: Data were collected over four years for 761 patients who were identified as high utilizers ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.678

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages685–690

OBJECTIVE: Studies of capitated financing of mental health services have generally focused on the cost and utilization of services. Relatively little research has addressed whether capitation has an impact on the effectiveness of the mental health system ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.685

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages691–698

OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether implementation of managed care in a public mental health system affected return visits to psychiatric emergency services within 180 days of an index visit. METHODS: Data were taken from an administrative database of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.691

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages699–704

OBJECTIVE: This study examined relationships between homelessness, mental disorder, violence, and the use of psychiatric emergency services. To the authors' knowledge, this study is the first to examine these issues for all episodes of care in a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.699

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages705–710

OBJECTIVE: This study tested the hypothesis that among patients admitted to a hospital with psychosis, Afro-Canadian patients would be more likely than Euro-Canadian or Asian-Canadian patients to be brought to emergency services by police or ambulance. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.705

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages711–716

OBJECTIVE: This study examined ethnic differences in assessment of violence risk among psychiatric inpatients by using the Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 (HCR-20). METHODS: The HCR-20 was administered to 169 consecutive psychiatric inpatients. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.711

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages717–720

OBJECTIVE: Latinas who immigrate to the United States and leave their children in their homelands may experience psychological consequences of this separation. This study examined whether immigrant Latinas who were separated from their children differed ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.717

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages721–728

OBJECTIVE: This study examined psychiatrists' contributions to racial and gender disparities in diagnosis and treatment among elderly persons. METHODS: Psychiatrists who volunteered to participate in the study were randomly assigned to one of four video ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.721

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages729–734

OBJECTIVE: The Anderson behavioral model was used to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in access to specialty mental health services among women in California as well as factors that might account for such disparities. METHODS: The study was a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.729

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Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages743–745

Previous studies suggest that patients use medical emergency departments for nonurgent care. However, relatively little has been published about the use of psychiatric emergency services. Eighty-two patients who visited the psychiatric emergency ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.743

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages746–748

This study explored the use of mental health services by Asian Americans and other ethnic populations (N=104,773) in California. The authors used linear regression analyses to assess the role of ethnicity and diagnosis in predicting six-month use of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.746

Publication date: 01 June 2005

Pages749–751

Pilot work was conducted to determine whether there were racial disparities in the use of second-generation antipsychotic medications in a sample of 2,717 residents of nursing homes in Arkansas in 2001. Chi square analysis and a logistic regression model ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.749

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