Psychiatric Inpatient Discharge Planning Practices and Attendance at Aftercare Appointments.

Objective: This study examined discharge planning practices by hospital providers for 17,053 psychiatric discharges in New York's statewide Medicaid program.

Methods: Claims data were linked to information reported to New York State by managed behavioral health care organizations (MBHOs) conducting inpatient utilization reviews. MBHOs documented hospital providers' reports of the presence of three discharge planning practices for each discharge: communicating with an outpatient provider prior to discharge, scheduling an aftercare appointment, and forwarding a discharge summary.

[The structure of emergency calls of the intensive care team depending on age and gender of patients appealed for urgent medical aid].

It is established that in 2008 in examined patients' sampling aged from 15 to 59 years, 47.2% consisted the group of suddenly ill and received urgent medical aid. The patients with cardio-vascular diseases consisted 17.