Clinical features and therapeutic management of patients admitted to Italian acute hospital psychiatric units: the PERSEO (psychiatric emergency study and epidemiology) survey

Abstract

Background: The PERSEO study (psychiatric emergency study and epidemiology) is a naturalistic, observational clinical survey in Italian acute hospital psychiatric units, called SPDCs (Servizio Psichiatrico Diagnosi e Cura; in English, the psychiatric service for diagnosis and management). The aims of this paper are: (i) to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients, including sociodemographic features, risk factors, life habits and psychiatric diagnoses; and (ii) to assess the clinical management, subjective wellbeing and attitudes toward medications.

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Gender differences in 353 inpatients with acute psychosis: The experience of one Psychiatric Emergency Service of Turin

“…As a positive treatment response is usually defined in the literature as greater than 20% reduction in BPRS (Lachar et al, 1999), our findings showed that a short LOS in our ward was highly effective. Our results are consistent with previous systematic reviews (Alwan et al, 2008;Johnstone and Zolese, 2009) and the two Italian surveys (Ballerini et al, 2007a(Ballerini et al, , 2007bBarbato et al, 2010;Preti et al, 2009), suggesting that a short hospitalization is sufficient for the majority of patients (Frieri et al, 2013).…”

Drug Prescription Patterns in Schizophrenia Outpatients: Analysis of Data from a German Health Insurance Fund

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