title: [The role of professional personnel in the length of hospitalization of psychiatric patients].
abstract: In this paper the qualified personnel turnover within the 25 years is presented. The following data are used: statistical data of the Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, the data of Psychotic Register of the Socialistic Republic of Croatia and specially taken poll in greater psychiatric hospitals in Croatia. In order to follow the situation in psychiatric organizing scheme, particular indicators are used. In the treatment evaluation, the personnel is measured according to the number of discharged or treated patients. The changes within period of a quarter of a century in psychiatry relating to the role, number and kind of staff who participate in psychiatric patients treatment, can be summarized as significant (high) rise of the psychiatrists, certain oscillations in the number of professional associates (psychologists, social workers, special teachers and other therapists) with the tendency to increase (although still insufficient), the growth of a number of nurses slight oscillations of the number of beds with minor diminishing during the last years, inpatients number increase, changes of diagnostic structure of inpatients and significant shortening of the hospitalization period of all the psychiatric patients. The increase of the number of psychiatrists is the most important in prognosis of the inpatients treatment directly referring to the shortening of the hospitalization period and the increase of the number of discharged patients (which is generally 80-100 discharged patients annually per psychiatrist).
authors.affiliation: Medicinskog fakulteta u Zagrebu.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sila
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Folnegović-Smalc
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kozarić-Kovacić
mesh_terms: D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011570:Psychiatry; D000078329:Workforce; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Uloga strucnih kadrova u trajanju hospitalnog lijecenja psihijatrijskih bolesnika.