title: Psychiatric impatients from an urban community, 1968-72.
abstract: The psychiatric inpatient population from Salford was analysed in five successive annual censuses, from 1 January 1968 to 1 January 1972. Short-stay and medium-stay patients (under one year) remained constant. Long-stay patients reduced only slowly, and the length of stay increased. Over 200 patients (60%) had been in for 20 years or more at 1 January 1972. Analysis showed that the 1968 long-stay cohort diminished by 122 patients (29%) in four years, while 54 new long-stay patients accumulated. There seems little prospect of emptying large psychiatric hospitals of their long-stay population.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010361:Patients; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D014505:Urban Population; D014852:Wales