Medical status and care of psychiatric patients in a day treatment program.

摘要

The occurrence of medical co-morbidity in this population was alarmingly high. The vigor of medical care provided was greater than one would expect for a psychiatric population averaging 41 years of age, although there were inadequacies reflecting a lack of standardized medical assessment at entry to day treatment. We propose a reconceptualization for day treatment, incorporating full medical screening as a standard component of entrance into day treatment.