Fiscal matters were analyzed in four specialized programmes of the Department of Psychiatry at the Toronto Western Hospital in order to plan for service and academic activities. The resultant analysis allowed for the establishment of criteria for growth and the evaluation of clinical service performance and goals.
The authors examine the relationship between psychosocial factors and factors and survival of patients with chronic renal failure, while considering simultaneously the influence of parameters of physiologic functioning. Psychosocial and physiologic variables selected for discriminant analysis were extracted from data on 285 home-dialysis patients in Ontario, Canada. This analytical procedure defined which variables best discriminated between the survivor and nonsurvivor groups. The findings suggest that demographic and psychosocial factors may be more important than physiologic variables in determination of survival on home dialysis. The severity and type of depression is of particular importance to outcome.
