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Maintenance in the Community: A Study of Psychiatric After-care and Rehospitalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Alan Sheldon  and
Kenneth J. Jones
Alan Sheldon
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Warlingham Park Hospital
Kenneth J. Jones
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, and Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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An initial report on this study (Sheldon, 1964) demonstrated a significant positive relationship between psychiatric after-care and reduction of readmissions to mental hospital in the six months following hospital discharge when patients were randomly allocated to psychiatric after-care or to the general practitioner. The present paper demonstrates that this effect, although diminished, is still apparent for a similar group of patients allocated to after-care by their discharging psychiatrist and followed up for three years. It attempts to clarify the factors operating in psychiatric selection for after-care, and to explore the relative importance of after-care and of the nature and severity of illness in determining outcome, at least as measured by the number, duration, and time after discharge of rehospitalizations.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 502 , September 1967 , pp. 1009 - 1012
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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