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Non-attendance of psychiatric outpatients
1MRC Clinical Psychiatry Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
South African Medical Journal = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Geneeskunde
|September 21, 1991
Abstract:
The failure of discharged psychiatric inpatients to attend for continuing outpatient treatment is an important factor in readmission. A study of 136 such patients indicates that frank resistance to treatment and inadequate information given to patients and their families are important contributing factors. A recommendation for improving the situation is made.