The authors evaluated the placement process in a large psychiatric
facility with both inpatient and outpatient services. They examined 71
inpatient and 90 outpatient new admissions using standardized tests of
psychopathology and sociodemographic status. After correcting for response
bias, the authors found, in contrast to other studies, that the level of
morbidity in the inpatient service was significantly different from that in
the outpatient unit. The measures of sociodemographic data indicate that
inpatients were more dependent on social support systems and that this
finding was not influenced by response bias.
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