title: Inpatients of Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Zhenjiang Psychiatric Hospital and New York State Mental Hospital, Rockland Psychiatric Center: comparison of the diagnostic distribution and sex ratios.
abstract: Description among Zhenjiang Psychiatric Hospital (ZPH) Taipei City Psychiatric Center (TCPC), and New York State Psychiatric Hospital, Rockland Psychiatric Center (RPC) admission cohorts during the identical year indicates that the RPC cohort demonstrates different frequencies of major psychiatric illness than the ZPH and TCPC cohorts which are remarkably similar. Schizophrenia is more prevalent among RPC public admissions than ZPH and TCPC. Mania exceeds depression in ZPH and TCPC samples while depression exceeds mania in RPC. Females predominate among ZPH and TCPC admissions, in contrast to male predominance in RPC. Wherease alcoholism is almost non-existant among ZPH and TCPC admissions, over half the RPC sample had a diagnosis of substance abuse.
authors.forename: B Y
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Yeh
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology