ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2017
Predictors of Length of Stay in an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit of a General Hospital in Perugia, Italy.
Article in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association of Supportive Text Messaging With Health Service Utilization Costs Following Psychiatric Admission: Secondary Economic Analysis of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR mental health · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of Text Messages and Text Messages Plus Peer Support on Psychiatric Readmission and Length of Stay: Outcomes From a Quantitative Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR mental health · 2025Trial
- Psychiatric Inpatient Length of Stay and Needs: A Cluster Analysis using Machine Learning Algorithms.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Patterns and Factors Associated with the Length of Hospital Stay in the Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Nepal: An Observational Study.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2025Observational
- Metabolic syndrome and its components are associated with lengths of stay in a psychiatric hospital: Results from a Swiss psychiatric cohort and first-episode psychosis patients.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Determinants of acute psychiatric inpatient length of stay in Ireland.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Length of hospital stay in involuntary admissions in Greece: a 10-year retrospective observational study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Observational
- Post-Disaster Community Transition of Psychiatric Inpatients: Lessons from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.Community mental health journal · 2024Article
- Influencing factors of length of stay among repeatedly hospitalized patients with mood disorders: a longitudinal study in China.Annals of general psychiatry · 2024Article
- Lost in Translation: Challenges in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Early-Onset Schizophrenia.Cureus · 2023Review
- Involuntary Hospitalizations in an Italian Acute Psychiatric Ward: A 6-Year Retrospective Analysis.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Predictors of Length of Hospitalization and Impact on Early Readmission for Mental Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors related to the length of stay for major depressive disorder patients in China: A real-world retrospective study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Inequalities in Psychiatric Service Use and Mortality by Migrant Status Following a First Diagnosis of Psychotic Disorder: A Swedish Cohort Study of 1.3M People.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2021Article
- Characterizing DSM-5 and ICD-11 personality disorder features in psychiatric inpatients at scale using electronic health records.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Article
- Assessing quality indicators related to mental health emergency room utilization.BMC emergency medicine · 2019Article
- Factors Associated with Length of Stay in a Swiss Mental Hospital.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to understand which of a number of factors are most associated with psychiatric inpatient length of stay (LoS). We hypothesized that a longer LoS would be predicted by: older age, male gender, unmarried marital status, foreign nationality, more than one hospitalization, being hospitalized involuntarily, psychotic symptoms and behavioral dyscontrol at admission, discharge diagnosis of psychotic and personality disorders, not having a substance use disorder, treatment with more than one class of medications, and being discharged to a community residential facility. All admissions to the Psychiatric Inpatient Unit of Santa Maria della Misericordia, Perugia Hospital, Umbria, Italy, from June 2011 to June 2014, were included in a medical record review. Bivariate analyses were performed and a multiple linear regression model was built using variables that were associated (p < .05) with LoS in bivariate tests. The study sample included 1236 patients. In the final, most parsimonious regression model, five variables independently explained 18 % of variance in LoS: being admitted involuntarily, being admitted for thought disorders, not having a substance-related disorder, having had more than one hospitalization, and being discharged to a community residential facility. LoS on this inpatient psychiatric unit in Umbria was associated with a number of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. Knowledge of these and other predictors of LoS will be increasingly important to, when possible, reduce the length of restrictive, costly hospitalizations and embrace community-based services.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.