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Rehabilitation of psychiatric patients who stayed in hospital more than one year

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Howard Sergeant
Howard Sergeant*
Affiliation:
Friern Hospital, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Howard Sergeant, Friern Hospital, London N11 3BP.
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Synopsis

Fewer than one half (238) of a cohort of 489 psychiatric patients who had stayed in hospital more than one year (longstay) were still in hospital three years later. One third of these ‘old’ longstay patients (170) were discharged and resettled – and 81 elderly patients died. During the same three years 1971–3 a further 108 patients became (new) longstay; 57 remained at the end of the study. The discharged patients were neither readmitted unduly often, nor did they become destitute.

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Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1976 , pp. 493 - 504
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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