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Psychiatric inpatients in 1982: how many beds?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

T. Fryers
T. Fryers*
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester, and Salford Psychiatric Case Register
*
2Address for correspondence: Dr. T. Fryers, Department of Community Medicine, Clinical Science Building, York Place, Manchester M13 OJJ.
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Sysnopsis

Using data collected by the Salford Psychiatric Case Register from 1 January 1968 to 1 January 1972, the current use of psychiatric inpatient beds is presented and trends discussed. Estimates are given for the likely occupancy at 1 January 1982, for short and medium stay (under one year), and long-stay (one year or more) beds. Three methods of projecting the accumulation of new long-stay patients are described and discussed. The total occupancy by 1982 is likely to be about 2·3 beds/1,000 total population, about 1·7/1,000 for long-stay patients.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1974 , pp. 196 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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Footnotes

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This work is supported by a grant from the Department of Health and Social Security

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