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Measuring levels of behavioural disturbance in long stay patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dominic Beer
Dominic Beer*
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Training Rotation, Medway Hospital, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5NY
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Large mental hospitals are gradually being emptied. Patients return to the community. But often their prospective carers have little idea of what to expect when they arrive. Hospital staff often cannot give information regarding how disturbed patients might be.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 10 , October 1991 , pp. 598 - 600
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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