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Patients or clients? – a hospital survey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The use of the term client, rather than patient, has become frequent in psychiatric hospitals. There is little evidence to justify this change, so this study surveyed the views of the in-patients in a community based psychiatric hospital to establish the term they prefer. It concludes that a dear majority of people admitted to a psychiatric hospital think of themselves as patients, not clients.
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- Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994
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