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W W Menninger

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PubMed1975

"Caring" as part of health care quality.

The subjective aspects of "caring" are an important part of health care quality and should be understood in the context of the illness-recovery process and the physician-patient relationship. "Caring" requires sensitivity on the part of the physician to the role of illness in our society and to the emotional component of illness in every patient. The patient's emotional response to the health care he or she receives should be respected as a valid aspect of health care quality. It is a continuing challenge to the medical profession to include some means of assessing this aspect of health care as part of professional standards review. As Dr Peabody noted, "The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1975

Kansas: a survey of state hospital admissions from an area served by a mental health center.

The authors made a survey of all admissions to Topeka (Kans.) State Hospital from a three-county catchment area over an 11-year period during which a private psychiatric clinic in the area assumed the functions of a comprehensive community mental health center. The center's activities brought a significant decrease in the number of direct admissions to the hospital from the catchment area. However, the center consistently referred more patients with psychotic disorders to the state hospital than would be expected on the basis of over-all state hospital admissions. Similarly, a high proportion of patients with organic brain syndromes were admitted directly to the hospital from the three-county area. The authors say the findings suggest that the public mental hospital still has an important role to play on the delivery of mental health services.

Analysis of Variance↗