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Author Kiesler, Charles A., 1934-2002.

Title Mental hospitalization : myths and facts about a national crisis / Charles A. Kiesler, Amy E. Sibulkin
Published Newbury Park : Sage Publications, [1987]
©1987

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Description 311 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Part One -- The Problem -- The History of Mental Hospitalization -- Part Two -- Trends in Hospitalization for Mental Disorders -- A Reanalysis of National Data -- Current Trends in the Annual Number of Inpatient Psychiatric Episodes -- Episodic Rate of Mental Hospitalization -- Trends in Length of Stay Per Psychiatric Episode -- Trends in the Proportion of Total Hospital Days that are for Mental Health Care -- Nursing Homes and Deinstitutionalization -- Readmissions -- Part Three -- Attempts To Treat the Hospitalized and Hospitalizable -- Alternative Treatment -- Noninstitutionalization -- Deinstitutionalization and the Problems of Subsequent Treatment, Chronicity, and the Homeless -- Part Four -- Problems with the Overall System -- National Expenditures for Mental Hospitalization -- The Medicare and Medicaid Programs -- Needs for New Knowledge -- Barriers to Effective Knowledge Acquisition and Use -- Summary and Conclusions
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 278-297
Subject Deinstitutionalization -- United States.
Mental health policy -- United States.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Length of stay -- United States.
Psychiatric hospital care -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Utilization -- United States.
Deinstitutionalization -- trends.
Health Policy -- trends.
Hospitalization -- trends.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- trends.
Mental Disorders -- therapy.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Sibulkin, Amy E.
LC no. 86015571
ISBN 0803928785