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The residuum of a traditional psychiatric hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Bryan H. Anstee*
Affiliation:
Coney Hill Hospital, Gloucester GL4 7QJ
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It is known that in most traditional psychiatric hospitals a significant minority of patients can have a better quality of life in hospital-hostels. With ample hospital-hostel places it was decided to interview and/or review the notes of all the non-demented Gloucestershire patients under 75 years whose stay in psychiatric hospitals exceeded one year on a census date of 26 September 1990. The characteristics of these long stay or residual patients are described.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991

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