BACKGROUND Up to 13% of psychiatric patients are readmitted shortly after discharge. Interventions that ensure successful transitions to community care may play a key role in preventing early readmission. AIMS To describe and evaluate interventions applied during the transition from in-patient to out-patient care in preventing early psychiatric readmission. METHOD Systematic review of trans...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to improve knowledge of the role and functioning of psychiatric acute wards with respect to admissions because of suicide risk and factors associated with readmission. METHODS Over one year, 1,245 consecutive psychiatric patients from a Norwegian catchment area were included at index admission and reassessed in cases of readmission. After a mean follow-up period of...

BACKGROUND Repeated drug overdose is a major risk factor for suicide. Data are lacking on the effect of psychiatric intervention on preventing repeated drug overdose. AIMS To investigate whether psychiatric intervention was associated with reduced readmission to emergency centres due to drug overdose. METHOD Using a Japanese national in-patient database, we identified patients who were firs...

BACKGROUND Readmission rate is considered an indicator of the mental health care quality. Previous studies have examined a number of factors that are likely to influence readmission. The main objective of this systematic review is to identify the studied pre-discharge variables and describe their relevance to readmission among psychiatric patients. METHODS Studies on the association between p...

Introduction Hospital emergency departments (EDs) around the country are being challenged by an ever-increasing volume of patients seeking psychiatric services. This manuscript describes a study performed to identify internal and external factors contributing to repeated psychiatric patient admissions to the hospital main ED. Methods Data from ED visits of patients who were admitted to the Pa...

Background: Readmission rates to child and adolescent psychiatric units among the youth have been reported be increasing.Aim: The study aimed determine readmission rate factors associated with of patients at a unit.Setting: A specialised hospital in Gauteng province, South Africa.Methods: This retrospective cohort utilised data from records admitted inpatient unit over period five years. cumula...

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...

OBJECTIVE To examine the disparities in psychiatric service utilisation over a 10-year period for patients with first admission for psychosis in relation to urban-rural residence following the implementation of universal health coverage in Taiwan. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort study. SETTING Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, which has a population coverage...

OBJECTIVE This study examined predictors of hospital readmission to determine whether readmissions can serve as a quality indicator for an inpatient psychiatric service. METHOD A series of 255 patients consecutively admitted to any of seven psychiatric hospitals in a regional managed care program were followed to determine whether they were readmitted within 6 months of discharge. Case manage...