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Integration of hospital care for the mentally ill: a status report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Morton G. Miller
Morton G. Miller*
Affiliation:
Visiting Colleague, MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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1Address for correspondence: Professor Morton G. Miller, 7 Arbutus Lane, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA.
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Synopsis

Analysis of DHSS statistics from the Mental Health Enquiry for 1975 indicates that, contrary to some predictions, district general hospital psychiatric units (DGHU) are assuming a proportionate share of the burden of hospital care for most groups of mentally ill individuals. Comparisons of admissions to mental illness hospitals and DGHUs indicate no major differences in most categories of patient characteristics (age, sex, order of admission and diagnosis); where differences do exist, they appear to be decreasing. Concern that DGHUs might ‘cream off’ patients with less serious illnesses, with a resultant ‘two-tier’ system of mental hospital care, would thus appear to be unwarranted.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 1979 , pp. 759 - 763
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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