Crisis Beds: the Interface Between the Hospital and the Community

David Ash and Cherrie Galletly
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David Ash: Hillcrest Hospital, Adelaide
Cherrie Galletly: South Australian Mental Health Services, and at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1997, vol. 43, issue 3, 193-198

Abstract: The main role of the crisis unit at a state psychiatric hospital was found to be the provision of brief hospitalisation for patients with adjustment disorders and person ality disorders. The four bed crisis unit treated 14% of all patients admitted to the hospital, with an average length of stay less than three days. A study of 78 crisis unit patients found that 77% were able to be discharged directly to the community, and only 18% were readmitted during the following six months.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409704300305

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