Psychiatric bed utilization: 1896 and 1996 compared

Abstract

Factors general to changing health care and expectations and others specific to mental health would appear to have led to the increase in rates of admissions observed in the modern period.

Diagnoses of Personality Disorders Between 1879 and 1929 in the Largest Croatian Psychiatric Hospital

“…This difference can be explained by the larger hospital capacity of Vrapče, as well as the fact that the patient population at Vrapče increased during the study period. Concerning diagnosis of personality disorders, our prevalence of 0.74% was similar to the approximately 1% found by Meier (14) and Healy in northern Wales (15). We found a significant increase in the number of admissions for personality disorders in 1920, congruent with the results of Meier (14).…”

“…We could not find the data on the length of hospital stay in the literature for this period. However, we did find the data on the length of stay for psychiatric patients in general during the same period, which was from 271-428 days (15). Thus, although the length of stay of our patients (92.00 ± 127.50 days) seems very long compared with the present day, it was much shorter than that of general psychiatric patients at that time.…”

Service utilization in 1896 and 1996: morbidity and mortality data from North Wales

“…Details on the numbers of patients admitted in 1896 and 1996 have been provided previously (Healy et al, 2001). A summary of these data and the diagnoses of patients is given in Tables 1 and 2.…”

“…The historical background to the asylum, the populations involved in this study and the methods of data entry are set out in Healy et al (2001).…”

Course and outcome of first-admitted patients with acute and transient psychotic disorders (ICD-10:F23)

“…ATPD is a common psychiatric diagnosis in Europe (Healy et al 2001; Lange et al 2002) as well as in developing countries (Okasha et al 1993). In recent years there has been an increasing interest in ATPD (Jorgenson et al 1997;Marneros et al 2002;Pillmann et al 2001Pillmann et al , 2002Sajith et al 2002).…”