Collection and Utilization of Statistical Data from Psychiatric Facilities in the United States of America

This paper describes progress made in developing a national programme for the collec- tion and use ofpatient data from mental hospitals and related psychiatric facilities in the USA.Examples are provided of the various types of tabulations that may be made to des- cribe the age, sex, diagnostic length ofstay, and related characteristics ofpatients receiving services in mental hospitals, of methods of analysing such data to reflect charges that take place in defined segments of the patient population during an interval of time, and of the application oflife-table methods to cohorts ofpatients admitted to suchfacilities to determine probabilities ofretention, release alive and death.The various uses that can be made ofsuch data and of the indices computed from them for epidemiological research andfor planning and evaluation of programmes for the control and reduction of disability from mental disorders are also discussed.It is recommended that, where appropriate, community surveys and field studies with the necessary comparison and control groups be conducted to test hypotheses concerning etiology and effectiveness of treatment that arise from the studies of institutional data

Business · Data collection · Environmental health · Psychiatry · Statistics · Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization · Healthcare Policy and Management · Mathematics · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes

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