Mental Illness and Addiction: Lessons from the County Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Ward

Inpatient charges and mental illness: Findings from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample 1999–2007

Inpatient costs related to mental illness are substantial, though declining as a percentage of overall mental health treatment costs. The public sector has become increasingly involved in funding and providing mental health services. Nationwide Inpatient Sample data for the years 1999-2007 were used to: 1) examine Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance charges related to mental illness hospi...

Hospital inpatient complications and severity of illness

This study evaluated the severity of illness of patients experiencing inpatient hospital complications in two hospitals in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York. It involved identification of inpatient complications by All Patients Refined (APR) severity of illness for pneumonia, clostridium difficile colitis, and urinary tract infection. Severity of illness was identified for each patien...

Inpatient experiences of ward rounds in acute psychiatric settings.

This study explores inpatients' experiences of ward rounds. Eight patients on an acute admissions ward were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. Data was analysed using content analysis. The findings showed satisfaction with the ward-round process, but participants identified issues that could be improved upon, with some expressing feelings of fear and intimidation. A number of partic...

Lessons from the program on chronic mental illness.

Mental well-being and mental illness: findings from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey for England 2007.

BACKGROUND Mental well-being underpins many aspects of health and social functioning, and is economically important. AIMS To describe mental well-being in a general population sample and to determine the extent to which mental well-being and mental illness are independent of one another. METHOD Secondary analysis of a survey of 7293 adults in England. Nine survey questions were identified a...