... basis of daily rates. Thequestion thus arises whether other clinical measurescould better predict LOS in inpatient psychiatry to findways of modifying this cost-determining factor. In view of ... syndrome, psycho-organicsyndrome, manic syndrome, hostility syndrome, vegeta-tive syndrome, apathy, compulsory syndrome, neurologi-cal syndrome. In total, those syndromes consist of 78symptoms ... 0 = nosymptom/mild symptom severity, and 1 = moderate tostrong symptom severity. The severity rating depends onthe intensity and duration of symptoms [14]. In our sta-tistical analyses, we...