Hospital records and psychiatric memorabilia

Psychiatric Hospital

In an outbreak of idiopathic erysipelas ten women patients, aged 42-74, in a long-stay unit of a psychiatric hospital were simultaneously affected. Group A streptococci M-type 1 were isolated from two patients with erysipelas and 18 carriers, but subsequent serological tests for type-specific antibody, antistreptolysin 0, and anti-deoxyribonuclease B showed that the infection had been widesprea...

Course of Health Care Costs before and after Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment: Patient-Reported vs. Administrative Records

Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

Prison or Psychiatric Hospital?

sort of men were being referred for reports. We particularly wanted to know their diagnosis, social background, the proportion needing hospital admission, whether that admission could have been arranged without the court, whether these people were very different from the ordinary hospital admissions and whether they needed any special nursing care. In 1963 there were 146 referrals of men to the...

Why keep hospital clinical records?

General Hospital Psychiatry: Psychiatric Certificates

A retrospective analysis of 70 cases referred for certification revealed that they accounted for less then 1% of total cases. Criminal cases constituted 50% and the rest were service and civil cases. There was no psychiatric problem detectable in 10% of the cases; 7% were for travel concessions. All the certificates issued in service matters were in favor of employees.