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Lai, Chia-Im; Hung, Wen-Jiu; Lin, Lan-Ping; Chien, Wu-Chien; Lin, Jin-Ding – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The paper aims to analyze the hospital inpatient care use and medical fee of people with ID co-occurring with schizophrenia in Taiwan. A nationwide data were collected concerning hospital admission and medical expenditure of people with ID (n = 2565) among national health insurance beneficiaries in Taiwan. Multiple regression analyses were…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Mental Retardation, Schizophrenia, Hospitals
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van Gent, Tiejo; Goedhart, Arnold W.; Treffers, Philip D. A. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
In this study socio-demographic, deafness-related and diagnostic characteristics of hearing impaired children and adolescents referred to a national mental health service for deaf and hard of hearing children and adolescents were examined. Socio-demographic and diagnostic characteristics were compared to corresponding characteristics of hearing…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Mental Health, Health Services
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Lin, Jin-Ding; Loh, Ching-Hui; Choi, Im-Cheng; Yen, Chia-Feng; Hsu, Shang-Wei; Wu, Jia-Ling; Chu, Cordia M. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Few studies reported in the literature have addressed the long-term trend of the use of medical care for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in institutions. The subject cohort in this study was made of 168 individuals with ID in a public residential facility from 1999 to 2002 in Taipei, Taiwan. The average age of participants was 19.3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Services, Mental Retardation, Residential Institutions