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Which Neurotic Patients Do Psychiatrists Treat?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
Of 336 newly referred neurotic patients, 80 were not offered continuing psychiatric treatment. The factors associated with patients' not being offered continuing treatment were: short duration of illness; history of alcohol abuse and/or deliberate self-harm; age over 50 years; being widowed; and living more than 20 miles from the main hospital complex. The implications of these findings are discussed.
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