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The TAPS Project. 10: The Long-Stay Populations of Friern and Claybury Hospitals: The Baseline Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Catherine O'Driscoll ,
Walter Wills ,
Julian Leff  and
Olga Margolius
Catherine O'Driscoll
Affiliation:
Child and Family Department, Tavistock Centre, London (formerly TAPS)
Walter Wills
Affiliation:
TAPS
Julian Leff
Affiliation:
TAPS, MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Olga Margolius
Affiliation:
Psychology Services, Haringey Health Authority (formerly TAPS)
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Abstract

As part of the TAPS project, the baseline long-stay populations of Friern and Claybury Hospitals were compared using the TAPS assessment schedules. Each hospital has reduced bed numbers by two-thirds, and although the two have been subjected to different influences, their remaining long-stay patients were similar, and characterised by severe problems with hygiene, florid psychotic symptoms, a high prevalence of negative symptoms, and impoverished social networks.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue S19: The TAPS Project: Evaluating Community Placement of Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients , April 1993 , pp. 30 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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