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An empirical approach to classification and treatment planning for psychiatric inpatients
Author(s) -
Harris Grant T.,
Rice Marnie E.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199001)46:1<3::aid-jclp2270460102>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , psychology , psychiatric hospital , institution , cluster (spacecraft) , radiation treatment planning , medicine , physics , political science , law , computer science , optics , programming language , radiation therapy
Treatment efforts for psychiatric patients traditionally are organized according to diagnosis, length of stay, age, and level of management difficulty. The current study, prompted by an attempt to reorganize services for 178 patients at a regional psychiatric hospital, examined the incidence of 72 problems exhibited either in the community prior to admission or within the institution. Factor and cluster analyses were used to identify clinically important subgroups of patients. Implications of the results for institutional organization also are discussed.