What is the usual length of stay in a psychiatric ward?

Admission statistics can provide valuable data for planning and policy in the NHS. However, there has been little agreement about meaningful ways of summarising and expressing such data. We set out to (i) explore the distribution of length of inpatient stay and to examine the most appropriate measure of central tendency; and (ii) examine the relationship between severity of mental illness and length of stay Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13651500310004498