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

Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713657515 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/13651500310004498 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]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/10.1080/13651500310004498Peer reviewe