title: Day and full time psychiatric treatment: a controlled comparison.
abstract: Ninety-one patients admitted as emergencies, suffering from neurosis, personality disorder, or adjustment reaction, were randomly allocated to day hospital or to continued in-patient care. Follow-up was for up to one year. Clinical outcome was similar in the day care and in-patient groups, but patient satisfaction was significantly greater in day patients. Day hospital care was only about two-thirds of the cost of the cheaper of the two in-patient regimes, even though contact with it was on average twice as long as for in-patients.
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000191:economics; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011897:Random Allocation