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. 1989 Jan:154:67-71.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.154.1.67.

Psychiatric clinics in general practice. Do they reduce admissions?

P Williams  1 , M Balestrieri
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Psychiatric clinics in general practice. Do they reduce admissions?

P Williams et al. Br J Psychiatry. 1989 Jan.

Abstract

General-practice-based psychiatric clinics have increased substantially in recent years. We investigated the influence on psychiatric admissions of this style of practice in England over an 18-year period. We utilised data from a previous survey concerned with this type of work (Strathdee & Williams, 1984) and compared them with figures on psychiatric admissions. Parts of the country in which there has been greater development of general-practice-based psychiatric clinics were also those in which there has been a steeper decrease in psychiatric admissions. Further analysis showed this to be due primarily to an effect on admission of non-psychotic patients.

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  • Admission trends.
    Hosty G. Hosty G. Br J Psychiatry. 1989 May;154:731. doi: 10.1192/bjp.154.5.731a. Br J Psychiatry. 1989. PMID: 2597879 No abstract available.

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