title: Relationship of illness and intensive hospital treatment to length of stay.
abstract: I have tried to review some salient features of the intensive hospital treatment of very ill patients and to provide both a phenomenologic, psychological, and financial rationale.
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003379:Countertransference; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*