Regional variation in patterns of inpatient psychiatric care
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (9) , 1180-1183
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.9.1180
Abstract
Regional variation in both average length of stay and number of beds per 100,000 population is described for inpatient psychiatric care in the United States during 1983. The greatest differences were between the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, on the one hand, and the Pacific and Southwest regions, on the other. Medical centers of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), whose policies are largely centrally determined, followed the same regional trends. Regional average length of stay, particularly in public sector mental health care organizations, was higher in regions with more occupied beds per 100,000 population.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: