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Improving initial attendance to a child and family psychiatric clinic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Mathai  and
A. Markantonakis
J. Mathai
Affiliation:
The Institute of Family Psychiatry, 23 Henley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3TF
A. Markantonakis
Affiliation:
The Institute of Family Psychiatry, 23 Henley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3TF
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Recent papers regarding failure to keep appointments at child psychiatry clinics (Plunkett, 1984; Gould et al, 1985; Cottrell et al, 1988) suggest from 15% to 50% failing to keep their first appointments. Benson, Novick & Rembar (1981) calculated an attrition rate of 85.4%, obtained by considering cases of non-agreed termination of treatment at any stage of the referral/treatment-uptake process.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 151 - 152
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