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Descriptive Studies of a Psychiatric Hospital Population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Michael Clarke
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1 7EH
Jane Waller
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1 7EH

Extract

These studies were carried out in Park Prewett Hospital (1,400 beds) which serves most of northern Hampshire, a population of just over 300,000 people. Our aim was to describe in some detail the gross features of this hospital population. Three descriptive techniques were employed.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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