title: [Long-term psychiatric patients at a district psychiatric department].
abstract: The purpose of the study was to describe the long-term patients in a psychiatric department conducted according to community psychiatric principles. A hundred and forty-one psychiatric long-term patients were found in the psychiatric department in Horsens Sygehus, Denmark, at a census on August 1, 1987. This corresponds to a prevalence proportion of 1.6/1000. The patients' utilization of care in the department during one year was 111 days on an average. In particular, patients aged 30-39 years and the schizophrenics used the facilities. The study emphasizes that long-term patients, and especially young schizophrenics, present a great problem to community psychiatric department.
authors.affiliation: Horsens Sygehus, psykiatrisk afdeling.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Sørensen
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Mors
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: Psykiatriske langtidspatienter i en distriktspsykiatrisk afdeling.