Social morbidity of a long-stay mental hospital population with chronic schizophrenia
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Psychiatric morbidity of a long stay hospital population with chronic schizophrenia and implications for future community care.
In the United Kingdom there are plans to close most mental hospitals over the next 10 years. There is continuing uncertainty about the effectiveness of community psychiatric services that will be expected to cope with mental hospital inpatients after discharge, most of whom have schizophrenia. A survey was conducted to assess the severity of illness among such patients and implications for thei...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.17.11.647