Psychiatric service use: a cohort study of first attenders
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 86 (4), 313-319
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb03272.x
Abstract
A retrospective cohort study was undertaken of all 1047 first-ever psychiatric service attenders to Christchurch general psychiatric services in 1981. All episodes of care were examined to the end of 1989. Only 24% of contacts were as an inpatient. Long-term contacts and frequent presenters formed only 15% of the sample. Nearly all cases not immediately discharged remained within the adult general service. Demographic and clinical variables and patterns of resource use are discussed.Keywords
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