Psychotic inpatients' social class and their first admission to state or private psychiatric Baltimore hospitals.
Social class differences were investigated among patients admitted to public and private psychiatric hospitals. Participants included first admission White psychotic men admitted to Baltimore metropolitan area hospitals between 1983 and 1989. After adjusting for age and diagnosis, patients with lo...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 84; pp. 287 - 290 |
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American Public Health Association
February 1994
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