Retrospective Analysis of Factors Associated with Long-Stay Hospitalizations in an Acute Psychiatric Ward.
Rosaria Di LorenzoGiulia MontardiLeda PanzaCinzia Del GiovaneSerena SaraceniSergio RovestiPaola FerriPublished in: Risk management and healthcare policy (2020)
In our sample, clinical illness severity and need for complex therapeutic and rehabilitative treatments were associated with prolonged psychiatric hospitalizations. Understanding this phenomenon can have not only economic but also clinical, ethical and social relevance.