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Crisis Beds: the Interface Between the Hospital and the Community

David Ash

Hillcrest Hospital, Adelaide

Cherrie Galletly

South Australian Mental Health Services, and at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide

The main role of the crisis unit at a state psychiatric hospital was found to be the provision of brief hospitalisation for patients with adjustment disorders and person ality disorders. The four bed crisis unit treated 14% of all patients admitted to the hospital, with an average length of stay less than three days. A study of 78 crisis unit patients found that 77% were able to be discharged directly to the community, and only 18% were readmitted during the following six months.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 43, No. 3, 193-198 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/002076409704300305
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