[COGNITIVE CAPABILITIES OF PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS: A CHART REVIEW STUDY].

Introduction: In patients with schizophrenia the most impaired competence is cognition. However, the sociodemographic and medical contributors to the various neurocognitive deficits have yet to be determined.

Objectives: To assess the impact of age, physical diseases, anticholinergic medications, gender and level of education on psychotic inpatients' cognitive capabilities.

Level of function at discharge as a predictor of readmission among inpatients with schizophrenia.

Objective: We retrospectively assessed the effect of social-, cognitive-, and task-oriented functioning levels at hospital discharge on the readmission rate of patients with schizophrenia.

Method: We assessed the functional capability of 71 inpatients (37 men and 34 women), mean age 41.3 (standard deviation = 11.