Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:515-517
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Short versus long hospitalization: a prospective controlled study. V. One-year follow-up results for nonschizophrenie patients
ID Glick, WA Hargreaves, J Drues and JA Showstack
The authors studied the effect of long-term versus short-term
hospitalization on a group of 74 patients with the diagnoses of affective
disorder, neurosis and personality disorder, and hysterical personality one
year after their admission to the hospital. Although they had found in an
earlier study that short-term patients seemed to integrate more rapidly in
the hospital, the results reported in this study showed no statistically
reliable differences between the long- term and short-term groups. In
contrast to the author's results for schizophrenic patients, their findings
for nonschizophrenic patients do not support extended hospitalization.
