title: Social characteristics of patients admitted to the terminated from mental health centers.
abstract: The assumption that terminations data represent a cross section of patients treated at mental health centers is investigated by comparing social characteristics of patients admitted to and terminated from mental health centers. The great majority of patient characteristics of the two groups are similar enough to make the above assumption safely.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina; D010361:Patients; D012744:Sex Ratio; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors