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Absconders from a district general hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

B. T. Farid
B. T. Farid*
Affiliation:
New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton WV10 0QP
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The patient absconding without leave (AWOL) produces considerable anxiety to staff, relatives and the public, and involves a great deal of staff time in notification, search and enquiry to the detriment of the care of other patients. Incidents of AWOL are potentially dangerous and all efforts to predict these incidents and to deal with them appropriately should be made.

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Audit in practice
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 12 , December 1991 , pp. 736 - 737
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

References

Tomison, A. R. (1989) Characteristics of psychiatric hospital absconders. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 154, 368–371.Google Scholar
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