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Patients or clients? – a hospital survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark W.M. Upton ,
G. Harm Boer  and
Alastair J. Neale
Mark W.M. Upton
Affiliation:
Wonford House Hospital, Exeter EX2 5AF
G. Harm Boer
Affiliation:
Wonford House Hospital, Exeter EX2 5AF
Alastair J. Neale
Affiliation:
Wonford House Hospital, Exeter EX2 5AF
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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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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , March 1994 , pp. 142 - 143
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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