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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robin G. McCreadie ,
Andrew D. T. Robinson  and
A. Oliver A. Wilson
Robin G. McCreadie*
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG
Andrew D. T. Robinson
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital
A. Oliver A. Wilson
Affiliation:
Bangour Village Hospital, Broxburn, Midlothian EH52 6LW
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

‘New chronic inpatients' (patients aged 18–64 years in hospital more than one but less than six years) were followed-up two years after identification in the catchment areas of 14 psychiatric hospitals, serving 56% of the Scottish population. Nine per cent had died, 71% remained in-patients, and 20% had been discharged; 40% of those discharged had no contact with after-care services, and 37% of those remaining in hospital did not need in-patient care. Discharged patients were younger, had been in hospital a shorter time, and less often had organic brain disease. Only 13% of patients who, when first identified, had been rated at a low functioning level had been discharged; 64% of those remaining in-patients at follow up had such a rating.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 147 , Issue 6 , December 1985 , pp. 637 - 640
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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