The information on the work histories of discharged schizophrenic patients presented in this paper was collected as part of a wider study of the effects of family relationships on the course of the illness in patients with schizophrenia (Brown, Monck, Carstairs, and Wing, 1962). An important detail of the design enabled a common defect of follow-up studies to be partly overcome; the clinical co...

The long term military careers of soldiers who had completed an in-patient alcohol treatment programme in 1983 were examined. Compared to a matched control group, soldiers who had received treatment served for a significantly shorter time post-treatment. Only 40% of the treatment group were discharged from the service on normal grounds. It is suggested that post-treatment career provides a usef...

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Statistics are presented on the characteristics of persons discharged from nursing homes over a 12-month period during 1984-85. Data are presented on discharge status (live or dead), duration of stay, dependencies in mobility and continence, living arrangements (prior to admission and after discharge), primary diagnoses at admission and discharge, primary sources of payment for admission and di...

Statistics are presented on the utilization of short-stay hospitals based on data collected in the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. Discharges, days of care, and average length of stay are distributed by each of the variables age, sex, and color of patient and by geographic region, bed size, and type of ownership (control) of hospital....

The impact on the motivation to treatment of a qualified alcohol withdrawal programme was evaluated in a pre/ post setting. Over a period of 2 years we compared the results of replacing the last week of an inpatient setting by day-clinic treatment. In the first year, 202 patients were treated in a 3-week inpatient setting, whereas in the second year, 149 patients out of 212 (70.3%) changed into...

Statistics are presented on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals based on data abstracted in the National Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of hospital records of discharged inpatients. The number of discharges, discharge rates, and average length of stay are shown for the classes and categories of first-listed diagnoses, by demographic characteristics of inpatient...