In-patient v. out-patient status

In-patient versus out-patient care for eating disorders

Dacryocystorhinostomy: an Out-patient Procedure.

CONSIDERABLE stress has been laid on the necessity of careful in-patient treatment and post-operative care in cases of dacryocystorhinostomy. In most busy hospital departments it is sometimes extremely difficult if not impossible to cope with all the chronic dacryocystitis cases who require this operation and consequently the waiting list tends to get out of hand, and many of these waiting case...

Care of out patient burns.

Introduction Out patient care of burns is appropriate for patients with small partial thickness burns who also have a supportive home environment. The cosmetic outcome of most small second degree burns if healed in 2 weeks time is good. In general, children with less than 10% BSA (body surface area) partial thickness burns and adults with less than 15% BSA partial thickness burns can usually be...

Patient satisfaction with out-patient rehabilitation therapy: validity and reliability

[Purpose] The purpose of present study were to develop an out-patient satisfaction questionnaire to be used in health care system, from which the underlying dimensions could be derived and individual patient scores calculated, and to evaluate some of the questionnaire's psychometric properties. [Subjects and Methods] Forty out-patient of local hospital reply both the questionnaire used in previ...

Treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic v. standard out-patient treatment in the early course of bipolar disorder: randomised clinical trial.

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic improves long-term prognosis for patients discharged from initial psychiatric hospital admissions for bipolar disorder. AIMS To assess the effect of treatment in a specialised out-patient mood disorder clinic v. standard decentralised psychiatric treatment among patients discharged from one of...