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Patients repeatedly admitted to psychiatric wards: a four-year follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Steffan Davies  and
Simon Payne
Steffan Davies
Affiliation:
Towers Hospital Leicester
Simon Payne*
Affiliation:
Mapperley Hospital Nottingham
*
∗Correspondence
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Previous studies have looked of repeated admissions and failed discharges but none have followed up a group of patients requiring multiple admissions over several years. We found that of the 42 patients admitted three or more times to acute wards in 1990, half were having a bad year and did not require this level of inpatient care in succeeding years; one-quarter continued to use acute services heavily but none required three or more admissions in every year of follow-up; one-quarter did badly and required prolonged in-patient care or died.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , June 1996 , pp. 342 - 344
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996

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