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Psychiatric intensive care in acute psychosis
1Department of Psychiatry, Withington Hospital, West Didsbury, Manchester, UK.
International Clinical Psychopharmacology
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
We have reviewed the development of psychiatric intensive care, focusing on organizational factors and the causes of psychiatric violence, suggesting guidelines for rapid tranquillization. The economics of running a psychiatric intensive care unit were subjected to an analysis of fixed, semi-fixed and variable costs. Variable costs (treatment and patient numbers) were shown to be more open to manipulation and possible cost savings.