Retrospective audit: depressive neurosis
Abstract
The charts of 100 patients with a primary diagnosis of depressive neurosis were subjected to retrospective audit using a format adapted from the American Psychiatric Association's Model Criteria Sets. Nineteen of the 33 unjustified variations from the audit criteria involved variations from the 8-28 day length of hospital stay. The author raises the question of whether the lower limit of 8 days is sufficiently flexible to permit hospitalization of acutely suicidal patients who can be discharged to outpatient care in less than 8 days.
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