Psychiatric day hospitalization: multiple perspectives on outcome.
Patients admitted over a three year period to a psychiatric day hospital were followed in order to: 1) substantiate the findings of other studies supportive of the short to intermediate term efficacy of psychiatric day hospitalization; 2) examine outcome on a number of dimensions and from a variety of perspectives; 3) examine issues relating to the differential efficacy of psychiatric day hospitalization; 4) discuss implications of the above factors in regards to planning effective day hospital programs.
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008350:Manitoba; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010359:Patient Readmission