Hospital Admission for Schizophrenia and Discharge Against Medical Advice in the United States
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Discharge Against Medical Advice in the United States, 2002-2011.
OBJECTIVE To describe the national frequency, prevalence, and trends of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) among inpatient hospitalizations in the United States and identify differences across patient- and hospital-level characteristics, overall and in clinically distinct diagnostic subgroups. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of inpatient hospit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1555-211X
DOI: 10.4088/pcc.09m00827yel