Sault Area Hospital

Area security unit in a psychiatric hospital.

Since 1974 a psychiatric hospital security unit, designed to serve the whole catchment area, has cared for mentally ill (mostly psychotic) patients with disturbed behaviour that cannot be managed in open wards. There are a few long-term dangerous patients but most stay only briefly. The admission of women to the unit was not followed by the expected reduction in violence. The unit has facilitie...

Area of Residence of Mental Hospital Patients

of Residence of Mental Hospital Patients. General Register Office, London (H.M.S.O.), 1960. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects No. 16. 15s. 6d. iv+177 pp. The latest volume in this admirable series is a new departure for the General Register Office. From previous reports we have been able to get the collated figures for England and Wales of mental hospital admissions. In this book admis...

Continuing education in an area hospital.

Area Disease Estimation Based on Sentinel Hospital Records

BACKGROUND Population health attributes (such as disease incidence and prevalence) are often estimated using sentinel hospital records, which are subject to multiple sources of uncertainty. When applied to these health attributes, commonly used biased estimation techniques can lead to false conclusions and ineffective disease intervention and control. Although some estimators can account for me...

Health indicators of workers of the hospital area.

OBJECTIVE to analyze the health indicators of workers of hospital area for exposure to workloads, wear processes and its consequences. METHOD a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory study performed in a hospital in southern Brazil. The population consisted of 1,050 workers notifications of registered in the Monitoring System of Nursing Workers Health, in 2011. RESULTS 80.8% of the reco...