Retrospective audit: depressive neurosis.
The charts of 100 patients with a primary diagnosis of depressive neurosis were subjected to retrospective audit using a format adapted from the American Psychiatric Association's Model Criteria Sets. Nineteen of the 33 unjustified variations from the audit criteria involved variations from the 8-28 day length of hospital stay. The author raises the question of whether the lower limit of 8 days is sufficiently flexible to permit hospitalization of acutely suicidal patients who can be discharged to outpatient care in less than 8 days.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D000407:Alabama; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008485:Medical Audit; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D000092864:Suicide Prevention