Awareness of Treatment Needs and Length of Stay Amongst Psychiatric Inpatients

Inpatient psychiatric units experience significant pressure from third party payers to keep length of stay (LOS) to a minimum despite having to treat more severely ill patients. However, there is a paucity of empiric data for guiding treatment decisions that maximize therapeutic outcome while minimizing LOS. We therefore endeavored to begin utilizing a newly created psychometric instrument, that assesses patient psychological factors, which we propose will allow for LOS prediction and individualization of therapeutic outcome.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - August 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: James L. Megna, Alka Aneja, Marie Sauro, Naseer Ahmad, Mihai Simionescu, Georgian Mustata, Mariela Herrera Rojas, Michael Wade Source Type: research