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The aim of this study was to understand the decision to hospitalize at the first contact, rather than utilize the other services of a community-based system of care Using the South Verona Psychiatric Case Register, 46 first-contact patients admitted to hospital were compared to all other in-patients (n = 187) over a 2-year span with respect to socio-demographic characteristics, diagnosis (ICD-9) and symptoms (on the Present State Examination Syndrome Check List). Results suggested that first-contact hospitalized patients have significantly more neurotic depressive features Alternatives to admission were investigated in only about one-third of depressive neurosis patients, compared to two-thirds of patients with other affective disorder diagnoses In contrast, for patients with psychoses, admission is a second choice (except for patients with organic psychoses).

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Author

C. Faccincani; G. Mignolli; P. Munk-Jørgensen

Publisher

Springer-Verlag; Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1433-8491)

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)