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Assaults on Staff by Psychiatric In-Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

E. Fottrell*
Affiliation:
Psychogeriatric Department Tooting Bee Hospital London SW17 8BL
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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