The TAPS Project. 7: Mental hospital closure--a literature review of outcome studies and evaluative techniques.
Various techniques have been used to assess the results of 'deinstitutionalisation'. This paper reviews these outcome studies, most of which have concluded that a new long-stay group will replace the old long-stay patients, and that a residual group of ageing patients, mostly with organic syndromes, is difficult to accommodate in the community.
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Child and Family Department, Tavistock Centre, London.
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