Insured Psychiatric Care

Comprehension of Quality Care Indicators: Differences Among Privately Insured, Publicly Insured, and Uninsured

This study explores consumers' comprehension of quality indicators appearing in health care report cards. Content analyses of focus group transcripts show differences in understanding individual quality indicators and among three populations: privately insured; Medicaid; and uninsured. Several rounds of coding and analysis assess: the degree of comprehension; what important ideas are not unders...

Somatizers in Psychiatric Care

Somatic symptoms are commonly reported by psychiatric patients. Sixty consecutively selected patients with predominant presenting complaints of somatic (bodily) symptoms were assessed using the Scale for Assessment of Somatic Symptoms. Physical and psychiatric examinations were performed. Somatisation cases were more often from 26-45 years age group, higher education, married and from urban bac...

Private inpatient psychiatric care.

A recent leading article on Private In-patient Psychi atric Care by Isaac Marks & Graham Thornicroft ( 1990)generated a flurry of indignant responses from colleagues working in the private sector (White et al, 1990). So far as I could tell, the leader contained neither factual errors nor rash statements yet such discussions always generate an emotive response. I am committed to the concept of a...

Insured Californians report high satisfaction with health care.

Psychiatric day-care in Birmingham.

The first psychiatric day-hospital in the United Kingdom was established in 1946 through the initiative of Bierer. This innovation was received with some scepticism (Bierer, 1955) and five years passed before a second day-hospital was created. Interest gradually increased, and by 1959 there were at least 38 psychiatric day-hospitals (Farndale, 1961). In the early sixties the movement received a...