title: A note on some recent studies of released mental hospital patients in the community.
abstract: The author conducted a literature search for follow-up studies of patients released from state mental hospitals to the community to assess the impact of released patients and the community on one another. She found that the follow-up studies lacked comparability in several ways and concludes that there is a need for greater comparability in future studies so that their validity as indicators of patients' postrelease functioning may be increased.
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D012008:Recurrence