Introduction: The concept of length of admission among psychiatric patients may be used as an indicator of service efficiency, quality of care and also for planning and distribution of hospital resources. Most studies on length of stay among psychiatric patients in Nigeria were conducted in Psychiatry department of tertiary hospitals with rarity of such studies in psychiatric mono-specialist where we have bulk of in-patients.
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