Preliminary analyses have produced interesting and informative findings.
PRN staff is busy preparing several manuscripts for submission to peer reviewed journals.
In addition, the PRN will present select findings from this important study at the 1998 APA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada. The purpose of this study is to learn more about psychiatric patients and the treatments that they receive in routine clinical practice. Findings from the 1997 Study of Psychiatric Patients and Treatments will provide a unique opportunity to track clinical practice patterns and the specific treatments provided to various types of patients in a rapidly changing health care delivery system. Figure 1 presents the data on the average number of patient visits in the past 30 days by type of health plan. After adjusting for patient sociodemographic, clinical, and diagnostic factors that were associated with number of visits in the past 30 days, there were still significantly different differences by type of health plan.