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Day Care in an Inner City

II. Quality of the Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank Holloway
Frank Holloway*
Affiliation:
Camberwell Resettlement Team, St Giles' Day Hospital, St Giles' Road, London SE5 7RN (Academic Department of Psychological Medicine, Kings College Hospital, London)
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Abstract

Seven units providing psychiatric day care to residents of an inner-city area were surveyed. The extent to which the clinical and special problems of attenders were adequately managed by the services was measured using a ‘needs-assessment’ technique. Units differed in the proportion of clinical and social problems that were rated as ‘unmet needs', although the extent of ‘unmet need’ was not clearly related to the morbidity of attenders at a unit or the available staffing.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 810 - 816
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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