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The Scottish Survey of New Chronic In-patients: Five-Year Follow-Up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. G. McCreadie  and
E. S. McCannell
R. G. McCreadie*
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG
E. S. McCannell
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Patients aged 18–64 years, in hospital more than one but less than six years, were followed up five years after identification: 22% had died, 50% remained in-patients, and 28% had been discharged; only 10% of first admissions with organic brain disease had left hospital. Of those discharged, 37% had no contact with after-care services. Of those remaining in hospital, 39% did not require in-patient care. Patients' level of functioning had improved over the five years.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 348 - 351
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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