Rehospitalization
It is an un
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It is an unfortunate fact that severely mentally ill patients are often rehospitalized. Laessle, Pfister & Wittchen (1987) have noted in their study of the rehospitalization of 100 former psychiatric inpatients, that schizophrenics had the highest risk of rehospitalization (after 3 years, 66% were readmitted and after 6 years 80% were readmitted), followed by schizoaffective patients (58 and 65%) and affective psychosis patients (41 and 58%). Interestingly, the authors also observed that aftercare in a short defined period after discharge from the hospital reduced significantly the risk of readmission for both patients with an affective psychosis and for patients who were married. Former rehospitalization increased the risk of a readmission. In another study of the incidence of rehospitalization among the severely mentally ill, Pablo, Kadlec, and Arboleda-Florez (1986), conducted a retrospective study of patient readmissions to a psychiatric unit in a large teaching hospital. A cohort of 150 patients (aged 17 65 years (47% female and 53% male)) was identified, and
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