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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

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01.09.2009 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Patterns of care in patients discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities

A national survey in Italy

verfasst von: Antonio Preti, Paola Rucci, Antonella Gigantesco, Giovanni Santone, Angelo Picardi, Rossella Miglio, Giovanni de Girolamo, MD, The PROGRES-Acute Group

Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Ausgabe 9/2009

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Abstract

Objective

To analyze the characteristics of patients scheduled for discharge from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities in Italy, and their pattern of care.

Methods

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, and patterns of care of 1,330 patients discharged from public and private inpatient facilities in Italy were assessed with a standardized methodology during an index period in the year 2004.

Results

About one half of the sample had schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. However, the case-mix differed between public and private facilities, where in-patients had more frequently mood and anxiety disorders. The use of two or more drugs was very common, involving more than 90% of patients and including typically benzodiazepines and antipsychotics. Structured psychosocial treatments were rarely initiated during the hospital stay. Increasing age, male gender, long stay in the facility (>60 days), personality disorder and type of facility were associated with a higher likelihood of being discharged to a community residential facility. Predictors of discharge to another psychiatric facility were increasing age, being single, schizophrenia, personality disorder and organic mental disorder. Families were not involved in decisions about patients’ discharge in a significant proportion of cases. University psychiatric clinics and private facilities were less coordinated with the community system of care than General Hospital Psychiatric Units. Referral of patients with substance use disorder to drug addiction services occurred in just 30% of subjects.

Conclusions

This study provides information on the characteristics and the pattern of care of patients discharged from inpatient facilities in a country that has closed down all its mental hospitals. This information may be relevant for those countries that are affording now the downsizing of MHs, and the expansion of community-based models of care.

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Titel: Patterns of care in patients discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities
A national survey in Italy
verfasst von: Antonio Preti
Paola Rucci
Antonella Gigantesco
Giovanni Santone
Angelo Picardi
Rossella Miglio
Giovanni de Girolamo, MD
The PROGRES-Acute Group
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2009
Verlag: Steinkopff-Verlag
Erschienen in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Ausgabe 9/2009
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Elektronische ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0498-2

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