A cross-sectional survey with a two-phase design was carried out at out-patient clinics of three health stations and a general hospital.
The study has therefore mainly recruited physicians from the general hospital and health stations.
There is general agreement however that the main psychiatric problems seen in elderly patients in the general hospital are depression, delirium and dementia.
The major increase in health expenditure in the 1990s was in the community care program, not in the core general hospital program.
Proposed definitions of readmissions in general hospital services include emergency (9) and the coincidence of diagnosis in both episodes (8).
Each province has one provincial general hospital as well as cantonal hospitals and smaller health-care facilities or centres.
A comparative study of screening instruments for mental disorders in general hospital patients.
With respect to definition of the product market, a division into separate markets for inpatient and outpatient general hospital care was assumed.
