The 'revolving door': a profile of acute admissions at a South African psychiatric hospital
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The 'revolving door': a profile of acute admissions at a South African psychiatric hospital
Abstract
This paper reports admission rates within the acute service at a major South African tertiary psychiatric facility, Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital (LPH) in Cape Town.
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