Escape phenomenon is studied in a mental hospital in a retrospective design. From among the 3892 admissions of 1977, 128 case files of patients who were escapees according to the definition used, were picked up. The incidence of escape for the year 1977 was 3.3%. Results on different variables were compared with hospital admission statistics for the year 1977 to draw inferences. Using a Chi-aqu...

Dromokaition Psychiatric Hospital opened its doors in 1887, following the donation made by Zorzis Dromokaitis from the island of Chios. Private donations and all forms of charities had contributed to a large extent in the establishment of hospitals across Greece, during the late 19th and the early 20th century. Dromokaition was one of them but it was also unique, as it was the first psychiatric...

In this book, Dr. Rollin shows that there is a group (composed almost entirely of chronic schizophrenics) who do extremely badly after their discharge from mental hospitals. They break the law because of their inability to look after themselves in the community and although proceedings are sometimes taken against them before they are transferred to a mental hospital, others are never prosecuted...

BACKGROUND In fiscal year 1990, administration accounted for 24.8 percent of total hospital costs in the United States - nearly twice the share in Canada. Studies from the 1970s and early 1980s found high costs, especially for administration, at for-profit hospitals. METHODS We calculated administrative costs for 6227 nonfederal hospitals and the total costs of inpatient care for 5201 acute c...

Statistical data from different parts of the world all tell a similar tale of a rapidly rising rate of admission of old people to mental hospitals.40 Although it has been often claimed that the stresses of modern life involve an all round increase in the incidence of mental illness, a careful investigation of the changes in first-admission rate to mental hospital in Massachusetts by Goldhamer a...

This article describes the emerging trend of using metrics in rural hospitals to achieve world-class performance. This trend is a response to the fact that rural hospitals have small patient volumes yet must maintain a profit margin in order to fulfill their mission to the community. The conceptual idea for this article is based largely on Robert Kaplan and David Norton's Balanced Scorecard art...

The article examines the models of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and some alterations in this field. The regional distribution of MFIs has been shown, as well as their main ties with the real economy against a background of commercial banks. The study also provide some findings on the influence of the financial crisis, which erupted in the late 2007, on the microfinance sector. Therefore, th...

Muslim-majority countries do not use formal financial services (Honohon 2007).1 Even when financial services are available, some people view conventional products as incompatible with the financial principles set forth in Islamic law. In recent years, some microfinance institutions (MFIs) have stepped in to service low-income Muslim clients who demand products consistent with Islamic financial ...

with evidence of the self-inflicted nature of their lesions and, when suspected, usually reject offers of psychiatric assistance and discharge themselves. There is no easy way of helping them and there are normally insufficient grounds for compulsory admission to psychiatric hospitals. However, they can at least be protected from the results of their own behaviour by dissemination of informatio...