The phrase "psychiatric inpatients" refers to people who are staying as patients in a hospital or facility for mental health treatment and care. Full definition
«Antipsychotic polypharmacy continues at a high enough rate to impact nearly 10,000 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia each year in state psychiatric inpatient hospitals,» write Glorimar Ortiz, Vera Hollen, and Lucille Schacht, of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute (NRI) in Falls Church, Virginia, which supported the study. (sciencedaily.com)
I learned to use it very effectively when employed as a crises worker and when working as a counselor in locked psychiatric inpatient units. (inspiredcommitment.com)
Childhood trauma and perceived parental dysfunction in the etiology of dissociative symptoms in psychiatric inpatients (cambridge.org)