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Med Psych Units: Proceedings and abstracts of the Triptych Workshop 9 december 1999 Maastricht

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

A. Honig ,
J. Troost ,
P.M.J.C. Kuijpers  and
I.M. van Vliet
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Med Psych Units (MPU) are neither clear-cut medical nor psychiatric units. This makes it difficult to acquire funding for these often expensive units. Despite this, there are many reasons why MPU's should be a necessary part of any larger scale inpatient service of a general and teaching hospital. It is therefore even more remarkable that such units hardly exist in Europe and that only about twenty exist in the USA. Five main reasons why such units should be opened are:

  1. The increasing average age of the population of the Western World, with high co-morbidity and polypharmacy in the elderly and elderly elderly.

  2. An increase in the number of chronic physical diseases resulting in co-morbid psychiatric disorders. This increase in chronicity is the consequence of increasingly successful treatment of acute and potentially lethal diseases; for example, acute myocardial infarction and the subsequent development of chronic heart disease.

  3. The decreasing duration of hospital admission. On average the duration of stay in a general hospital in The Netherlands is now nine days. The number of day-treatments has doubled in the last decade. This situation means that it is not possible to observe the behavior of patients on a general medical ward or to carry out a psychiatric consultation.

  4. Inadequate medical evaluation of psychiatric patients. According to a recent survey by the Dutch Ministry of Health, the care given for physical disease to psychiatric patients in mental hospitals in The Netherlands needs much to be desired for.

  5. The psychiatric co-morbidity of somatic diseases is accompanied by a high consumption of medical facilities and high economic losses, unless adequately recognized and treated.

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Research Article
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 141 - 145
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Copyright © Scandinavian College of Neuropsychopharmacology 1999

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