Tracing Techniques in Follow up of Alcoholics
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Follow up studies offer vital information regarding course and outcome of any illness and throw light on therapeutic efficacy. Such studies, although fraught with difficulties, arc indispendable in psychiatry. O'Connor and Daly (1985, 1986) in their reports of a follow up study of alcoholics opined that unless a high percentage of follow up group is traced effectively, the results of long term follow up studies must be suspect.
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