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Psychiatric inpatient admissions and discharges of people with intellectual disabilities: A time series analysis of English national data
Ist Teil von
Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities, 2023-01, Vol.36 (1), p.196-204
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Background
We examined whether a series of variables were related to the number of psychiatric inpatients using publicly available data about English psychiatric bed utilisation and NHS workforce.
Method
Using linear regression, with auto‐regressive errors, we examined relationships between variables over time using data from December 2013 to March 2021.
Results
Over time, the number of inpatients reduced by either 6.58 or 8.07 per month depending upon the dataset utilised, and the number of community nurses and community nursing support staff reduced by 7.43 and 2.14 nurses per month, respectively. Increasing numbers of consultant psychiatrists were associated with fewer inpatients over time. More care and treatment reviews (CTRs) were associated with more admissions over time, while more post‐admission CTRs were associated with increased discharges over time.
Conclusions
Future studies should examine whether psychiatric bed utilisation elsewhere within the NHS by people with intellectual disabilities has increased.