title: Predicting rehospitalization at a community mental health center: a "double-crossed" validation.
abstract: Used a multiple regression equation that contained a variety of demographic and diagnostic measures as predictor variables to predict 5-year recidivism in a group of 100 psychiatric inpatients hospitalized at a community mental health center. This equation then was cross-validated via the prediction of recidivism in a second group of 100 inpatients. A predictive equation derived from an analysis of this second group of patients then was used in a "double-crossed' validation back to the first group. Diagnoses that involved schizophrenia and drug abuse, major psychotropic drug regimens, and a failure to appear for follow-up therapy as an outpatient emerged consistently as predictor variables.
mesh_terms: D000359:Aftercare; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs