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A Prospective Controlled Study: I. The Preliminary Results of a One-Year Follow-Up of Schizophrenics

Ira D. Glick, MD; William A. Hargreaves, PhD; Michael D. Goldfield, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1974;30(3):363-369.

Abstract
Although inpatient hospitalization of very short duration for schizophrenia is currently a widely prevalent treatment approach in the United States, there are few controlled studies of such treatment. Furthermore, there are no controlled studies comparing short-term (defined here as 21 to 28 days) with long-term (defined here as 90 to 120 days) inpatient treatment.

This study has been designed to try to answer, in part, the following question: What is the relative clinical cost-effectiveness of short-term hospitalization as an alternative to long-term hospitalization for schizophrenic patients in need of hospital care and for whom both types of treatment are judged clinically feasible?

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the Clinical Research Ward, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 14, 1973.

Read, in part, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 11, 1973, Honolulu.

Reprint requests to the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr. Glick).

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