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ArticleNeuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater2014

[Heavy users of inpatient services: a comparison of diagnostic subgroups].

Hans Rittmannsberger, Anke Sulzbacher, Christian Foff, Thomas Zaunmüller

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Article in Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. ["But you know Mr. M., you won't get hospitalised" : A qualitative study on service users' experience of seeking psychiatric inpatient admission].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2019
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  2. [Relevance of type of diagnosis and occupational status for the results of psychiatric rehabilitation].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2018
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  3. [Psychiatry and psychiatric patients : A study of the adherence after psychiatric inpatient treatment at the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy at the Clinicum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.]Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2017
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  4. [Comorbid somatic illnesses in psychiatric inpatients - an analysis of administrative data].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2015
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4 authors.

Hans RittmannsbergerPsychiatrie 1, LNK Wagner-Jauregg, Wagner-Jauregg-Weg 15, 4020, Linz, Österreich, hans.rittmannsberger@gespag.at.
Anke Sulzbacher
Christian Foff
Thomas Zaunmüller

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveQuantitative and qualitative assessment of heavy users (HU) of psychiatric inpatient treatment.

methodsScreening over 9 months for patients with ≥ 3 admissions or ≥ 100 days of treatment during 1 year prior to index admission.

resultsDuring the recruiting period 1217 persons were treated of whom 132 (10.8 %) fulfilled HU criteria. Patients belonged most often to the diagnostic group F2 (43 %), followed by F1 (21 %) and F3 (17 %). HU were most common within the diagnostic group F6 (33 %), next to F2 (21 %), F1 (9 %) and F3 (6 %). HU had signs of more severe illness compared to the other patients: only 8 % held a job and 73 % ware on a disablement pension, patients with a diagnosis of F2 faring worst. HU were treated more frequently involuntarily (50.5 vs 30.7 %). An office-based physician referred only 5 % of the patients and almost half attended the clinic without any referral. HU participated only to a modest degree in community-based treatments and 37 % attended no doctor in the month prior to admission. During the year following the index admission more than 80 % of HU were admitted again and were hospitalized almost as many days as before the index admission. Patients with a diagnosis of F1 and F2 showed the greatest persistence of heavy use behavior.

conclusionsThis sample of HU show a persistent pattern of use of psychiatric inpatient treatment. Strategies to improve the situation are discussed.

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AdultAustriaDiagnosis-Related GroupsFemaleHealth Services MisuseHumansLength of StayMaleMental DisordersMiddle AgedPatient AdmissionPatient ReadmissionPsychiatric Department, HospitalQualitative ResearchUtilization ReviewYoung Adult

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