Elderly Patients Admitted to the Psychiatric Unit of a General Hospital
作者:
Yeates Conwell,
J. Craig Nelson,
Kathleen Kim,
Carolyn M. Mazure,
期刊:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
(WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期:
Volume 37,
issue 1
页码: 35-41
ISSN:0002-8614
年代: 1989
DOI:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1989.tb01566.x
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Elderly psychiatric patients who are cared for in general hospital psychiatric settings have not been clearly characterized in the literature in terms of demographics, primary diagnoses, hospital course, and outcome. The authors reviewed charts of 168 patients over the age of 60 years admitted to a general hospital inpatient psychiatry unit over a 5‐year period in order to develop a demographic and clinical profile of this patient population. Results indicated that the large majority of patients had affective syndromes; dementia was the second most common diagnosis. Length of stay correlated with severity of depressive illness, while a diagnosis of dementia was associated with a shorter hospitalization. Outcome measures showed favorable response to treatment in three‐fourths of this population of elderly psychiatric patients. These data suggest that the general hospital acute inpatient setting is well suited to care for the combined medical and mental illnesses of elderly psychiatric patie
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