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San Thinn DS, Kuswanto CN, Sum MY, et al. The 23-Hour Observation Unit Admissions Within the Emergency Service at a National Tertiary Psychiatric Hospital: Clarifying Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Predictors of Subsequent Hospitalization. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2015;17(4)doi: 10.4088/PCC.15m01789.
San Thinn, D. S., Kuswanto, C. N., Sum, M. Y., Chai, S. B., Doris Sok, H. K., Xu, C., Chuan Su, A. H., Sengupta, S., Jacob, R., & Sim, K. (2015). The 23-Hour Observation Unit Admissions Within the Emergency Service at a National Tertiary Psychiatric Hospital: Clarifying Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Predictors of Subsequent Hospitalization. The primary care companion for CNS disorders, 17(4), . https://doi.org/10.4088/PCC.15m01789
San Thinn, Daw San, et al. "The 23-Hour Observation Unit Admissions Within the Emergency Service at a National Tertiary Psychiatric Hospital: Clarifying Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Predictors of Subsequent Hospitalization." The primary care companion for CNS disorders vol. 17,4 (2015). doi: https://doi.org/10.4088/PCC.15m01789
San Thinn DS, Kuswanto CN, Sum MY, Chai SB, Doris Sok HK, Xu C, Chuan Su AH, Sengupta S, Jacob R, Sim K. The 23-Hour Observation Unit Admissions Within the Emergency Service at a National Tertiary Psychiatric Hospital: Clarifying Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Predictors of Subsequent Hospitalization. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2015 Jul 16;17(4). doi: 10.4088/PCC.15m01789. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26693048; PMCID: PMC4664576.
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Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2015 Jul 16;17(4). doi: 10.4088/PCC.15m01789. eCollection 2015.

The 23-Hour Observation Unit Admissions Within the Emergency Service at a National Tertiary Psychiatric Hospital: Clarifying Clinical Profiles, Outcomes, and Predictors of Subsequent Hospitalization.

The primary care companion for CNS disorders

Daw San San Thinn, Carissa Nadia Kuswanto, Min Yi Sum, Suet Bin Chai, Hian Koh Doris Sok, Changqing Xu, Alex Hsin Chuan Su, Somnath Sengupta, Rajesh Jacob, Kang Sim

Affiliations

  1. Department of General Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore (Drs San San Thinn, Chai, Su, Sengupta, Jacob, and Sim and Mss Koh and Xu); and Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore (Mss Kuswanto and Sum).

PMID: 26693048 PMCID: PMC4664576 DOI: 10.4088/PCC.15m01789

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We examined health care utilization, clinical profiles (such as sociodemographic features, clinical severity), and outcomes (inpatient admission, revisit within 24 hours of discharge) of patients who were admitted to a 23-hour observation unit within the emergency service of a tertiary psychiatric hospital and hypothesized that a specific clinical profile (greater clinical severity, lower psychosocial functioning) predicted subsequent inpatient hospitalization.

METHOD: The medical records of all patients admitted to the observation unit from February 5, 2007, to February 4, 2012 (N = 2,158) were assessed for relevant data. Clinical severity and level of psychosocial functioning were assessed using Clinical Global Impressions-Severity (CGI-S) and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scales, respectively.

RESULTS: Overall, the patients seen were predominantly Chinese males > 36 years old who had diagnoses including stress-related, anxiety, affective spectrum, and psychotic disorders. The clinical severity score (CGI-S) improved significantly following discharge from the observation unit (t 1,1848 = 23.316; P < .001). Logistic regression analyses revealed that self-referred (P = .001), older patients (P = .007) with past psychiatric history (P = .019), lower GAF scores (P = .025), and less improvement of CGI-S scores (P = .001) were associated with inpatient admission after a 23-hour stay in the observation unit.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study findings affirmed our hypothesis and supported the utility of the observation unit in monitoring the overall clinical status of patients, which was linked with subsequent inpatient admissions. Better management of these patients at the outpatient level can potentially decrease unnecessary hospitalization and reduce health care cost as well as illness burden on patients and caregivers.

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