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objective: the objective of this study was to evaluate mean hospitalization time (mht) and patient diagnosis. methods: records of 2,247 patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital from january to december 2004 were reviewed to retrieve mht, age, sex, origin and diagnostic categories. measures of central tendency and dispersion, student%26apos;s t, kruskal-wallis or analysis of variance, chi-square and pearson tests were used for statistical analyses at a 5% level of significance. results: of all patients, 59.8% were from campo grande (ms), 65.5% were male (p=0.000), and 43.3% had a diagnosis of schizophrenia. no significant differences in age were found between sexes (p=0.080). overall mht was 27.66 days. a significant difference in mht was found in diagnostic categories (p=0.001) between the groups of patients from different origins (p=0.045): patients from cities farther than 200 km from campo grande had a longer hospital stay (29.1 days). statistical differences were also found for the distribution of diagnostic categories when analyzed according to number of admissions (p=0.000), for the distribution of the main diagnoses (p=0.000); and for mht according to patient origin (p=0.000). conclusions: the thm is within the acceptable level recommended by the brazilian department of health.
