TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Advanced Technology in Inpatient Child Psychiatry
T2 - Leading Edge or Useful Aid?
AU - WOOLSTON, JOSEPH L.
AU - RIDDLE, MARK A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Accepted June 5, 1990. Dr. Woolston is Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service and Associate Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Riddle is Associate Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service and Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry. Yale University School of Medicine. . The authors thank Mr. Andrew Aspel whose efforts made the data collection possible. Donald Cohen. M.D .• who provided administrative and intellectual support, the staff of the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service, Yale-New Haven Hospital for clinical care of the patients, and Ms. Veronica Alexander for secretarial assistance. This work was supported by a grant from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation. Presented in part at the Sixth Annual Einstein Symposium in Psychiatry at the New York Academy ofMedicine. October6, 1989. Reprint requests to Dr. Woolston, Yale University School of Medicine, Child Study Center. P.O. Box 3333, New Haven. CT 06510. 0890-8567/9012906-0905$02.0010© 1990bytheAmericanAcademy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - New technology has played a catalytic role in advancing understanding of etiology, diagnosis, and treatment in virtually all fields of medicine. Child psychiatry, a relatively new medical specialty, has begun to employ such advanced technology in diagnosis and treatment monitoring. This current study demonstrates that, in an inpatient child psychiatric setting, such advanced technology has a positive diagnostic yield of 5% for new medical diagnoses and a cost of about 0.5% of the hospital bed cost. Other tests, such as psychotropic blood level monitoring and psychometric evaluation of cognitive functioning, have a much higher yield. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1990, 29, 6:905–908.
AB - New technology has played a catalytic role in advancing understanding of etiology, diagnosis, and treatment in virtually all fields of medicine. Child psychiatry, a relatively new medical specialty, has begun to employ such advanced technology in diagnosis and treatment monitoring. This current study demonstrates that, in an inpatient child psychiatric setting, such advanced technology has a positive diagnostic yield of 5% for new medical diagnoses and a cost of about 0.5% of the hospital bed cost. Other tests, such as psychotropic blood level monitoring and psychometric evaluation of cognitive functioning, have a much higher yield. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1990, 29, 6:905–908.
KW - adolescents
KW - children
KW - diagnostic technology
KW - inpatient child psychiatry
KW - service utilization
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U2 - 10.1097/00004583-199011000-00011
DO - 10.1097/00004583-199011000-00011
M3 - Article
C2 - 2273019
AN - SCOPUS:0025203220
SN - 0890-8567
VL - 29
SP - 905
EP - 908
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -