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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 130, No. 8

Articles | August 01, 1973

Relationships Between Length of Stay in and out of the New York State Mental Hospitals

ABBOTT S. WEINSTEIN; DIANE DIPASQUALE; FREDERICK WINSOR

Am J Psychiatry 1973;130:904-909.

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Director of Statistics and Clinical Information, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, 44 Holland Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12208

Associate Programmer, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, 44 Holland Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12208 and Chairman of the Mathematics Department, College of St. Rose, Albany, N.Y.

Chief of Statistical Operations, New York State Department of Mental Hygiene, 44 Holland Ave., Albany, N.Y. 12208

1973, The American Psychiatric Association

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Most of the patients who left the New York State hospitals during the past six years remained out for substantial periods of time. The length of time out of the hospitals was related to the length of stay in the hospitals only to a minor degree, but the length of time out was strongly related to the number of previous hospitalizations. Patients aged 16 to 64 years left much sooner and returned slightly sooner than the younger or older patients. Inpatient stays were shortened markedly from 1966 to 1971. The length of time out of the hospitals after inpatient stays also tended to decrease, but to a far lesser extent; 1971 showed an exception to the trend.

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