![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Development of new and improved pharmacological agents has opened novel pathways for treating symptoms and syndromes. Clinical research has provided increased understanding of the mechanisms involved in psychiatric illnesses. Although their responses to treatment are essential data for psychiatrists to justify continued inpatient days or to facilitate discharge, admission assessment and discharge planning occur simultaneously.Īdvanced technology, revealing greater detail about brain functioning, has offered another side to current health care practices. Only those requiring emergency care or those experiencing the most profound limitations can actually meet these criteria-most frequently medically complex patients or those at risk of immediate harm to self or others. Managed care and its related precertification criteria serve as a screen through which few patients can fit. Faced with the trend toward shorter length of stay in inpatient psychiatric units, practitioners and patients in need of care face dramatic changes in treatment. ![]()
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