A Cumulative Register of Psychiatric Services in a Community

The lifetime prevalence of mental disorders: estimation, uses and limitations

“…The reporting agencies include all of the agencies that provide psychiatric 27 services to the residents of Monroe County, including psychiatrists in private practice. This register has been described by Gardner et al (1963). It is emphasized that these rates are not true incidence rates: they are subject to the limitations of such administrative data.…”

An·Institution-Based Register in a Psychiatric University Clinic

“…The first is much more sophisticated an instrument than the latter and its principles have been described in detail (Wing and Bransby, 1970;Baldwin, 1971). Since it not only avoids selection biases and duplicated counts, but is also based on a defined population and is cumulative over time, it permits a wide range of epidemiological research and facilitates the evaluation and planning of local services (Gardner et al, 1963, Miles andGardner, 1966;Liptzin andBabigian, 1972,Bahn, 1967;Baldwin, 1971;Wing and Hailey, 1972). On the other hand, this type of register has the limitation of being a very costly tech nique, demanding both specialized staff and resources.…”

Ten Years Experience with a Cumulative Psychiatric Patient Register

“…It was set up to collect longitudinal psychiatric data on all residents of Monroe County including the city of Rochester (total population 580,000 in 1960 and 700,000 in 1970). Its original goals were discussed in detail in an earlier paper [12] and are in the general areas of: clinical, epidemiological, and service evaluation. A more recent paper summarized various studies which used the Register [3].…”