title: Children abandoned in long-stay hospitals.
abstract: This study, financed by the Buttle Trust, investigates some aspects of the problems of abandonment of children in hospital, employing a sample of sixty-eight children from six selected hospitals, who meet a given definition of abandonment. Almost a fifth of the total population of children in the hospitals studied meet this definition; about a third of the sample are abandoned early in their lives, and for the remainder, admission itself appears to be a factor in abandonment.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002670:Child, Abandoned; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004739:England; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008134:Long-Term Care