A method for understanding admission decision making in a psychiatric emergency room

1 October 1995

journal article
Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services

Vol. 46 (10) , 1055-1060
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.46.10.1055

Abstract

To increase understanding of decisions about inpatient admission, a four-step algorithm was used to examine 2,073 consecutive visits to a public hospital psychiatric emergency room, 684 of which resulted in admission.

Keywords

INPATIENT
HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC
DECISION MAKING
ALGORITHM
UNDERSTANDING ADMISSION
ADMISSION DECISION
PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY
EMERGENCY ROOM
CONSECUTIVE VISITS

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