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No way out
— the delayed discharge of elderly mentally ill acute and assessment patients in North and South Thames regions | | Author(s) | Jonathan Koffman, Naomi J Fulop, David Pashley, Ken Coleman |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 25, no 4, July 1996 |
| Pages | pp 268-272 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Hospital services ; In-patients ; Delayed discharge ; London. |
| Annotation | Drawing on data from a one-day census of all NHS acute psychiatric beds in the two regions, this article examines the characteristics of patients occupying elderly-mentally-ill acute and assessment beds; the proportion of those patients no longer in need of acute care; and the unmet need for alternative service provision. Concludes that a high proportion of older mentally ill acute and assessment patients were inappropriately located. |
| Accession Number | CPA-960726026 A |
| Classmark | E: LD: LF7: LD:QKM: 82L |
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