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Discharge of long-stay psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Graham Thornicroft*
Affiliation:
The Maudsley Hospital, London SE5
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Abstract

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987

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