title: Psychiatric and alcoholic admissions do not occur disproportionately close to patients' birthdays.
abstract: The relationship between admission dates and patients' birthdays was examined for 200 psychiatric and 200 alcoholic patients from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Chi-squared analyses indicated that admission dates for subjects of both populations did not occur disproportionately close to their birthdays.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Specht
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Tushup
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Deatrick
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D000846:Anniversaries and Special Events; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010414:Pennsylvania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies