Involuntary transfer as a cause of death and a medical hospitalization in geriatric neuropsychiatric patients.
The effects of mass involuntary transfer on geriatric neuropsychiatric male patients were evaluated by comparing outcomes for three overlapping sets of patients (N = 403, 385, and 378) over several follow-up periods. One group, the "reorganization" sample, consisted of all patients on three geriatric wards at a time just before the wards were reorganized and 20 percent of the patients were transferred to other buildings. The comparison samples comprised two overlapping groups consisting of all patients on the wards four months earlier and four months later.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000850:Anomie; D003704:Dementia; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009017:Morbidity; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D013315:Stress, Psychological