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Long-stay patients
• Objective: To determine the characteristics and resource utilization associated with long-stay patients in academic children’s hospitals. • Study design and methods: Retrospective cohort study using the Pediatric Health Information System database, which includes data from 34 noncompeting children’s hospitals in the United States. We defined long-stay patients as those with a length of stay (...
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The head circumference of a long-stay population with schizophrenia was compared with that of a population with dementia, matched for sex and year of birth. Schizophrenics had a smaller head circumference, even after correction for height and weight. This confirms earlier but inconclusive and controversial reports, and might be taken as supporting a neurodevelopmental hypothesis of the aetiolog...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.14.8.499-b