Readmission to the mental hospital: an indicator of quality of care?
Recidivism rates in psychiatric hospitals are high and rising. This article explores whether this costly phenomenon is related to quality of care, length of stay, or characteristics of patients.
D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000639:trends*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States