title: The long and the short of it: are shorter periods of hospitalisation beneficial?
abstract: The politics of shortening hospital stays for people with psychosis has been questioned by a number of studies. Hospital practice in the meantime remains highly variable and the research evidence increasingly difficult to interpret given different conceptualisations of what constitutes effective treatment. In the absence of clearer guidelines from researchers in this area, decisions about duration of hospitalisation risk being driven by economic rather than clinical considerations.
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Capdevielle
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ritchie
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*