Organizational and client influences on psychiatric admissions.
This paper analyzes the decisions which take place at the entrance gate of the mental hospital-the organizational and client factors which influence the decision to admit. More specifically, it explores variations in the determinants between first admissions and readmissions. In the process, a theoretical model will be developed, based on a study of admissions to state hospitals, which may help explain several of the underlying and continuing obstacles confronting efforts to reduce readmissions.
D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009820:Ohio; D010343:Patient Admission; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology