title: Crisis hospitalization in a psychiatric emergency service.
abstract: Crisis hospitalization has both an affirmative rationale in the community movement and a secondary rationale of cost containment. Brief hospitalization within the psychiatric emergency service offers intensive treatment and a rapid return to the community for the patient and is cost-effective for the mental health system.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D004637:Emergency Services, Psychiatric / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged