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Cross-National Study of Diagnosis of the Mental Disorders: A Comparison of the Diagnoses of Elderly Psychiatric Patients Admitted to Mental Hospitals serving Queens County, New York, and the former Borough of Camberwell, London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. R. M. Copeland
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
M. J. Kelleher
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
J. M. Kellett
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
A. J. Gourlay
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
D. W. Cowan
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
G. Barron
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
J. De Gruchy
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
B. J. Gurland
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
L. Sharpe
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
R. Simon
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
J. Kuriansky
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF
P. Stiller
Affiliation:
U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF

Extract

The original aim of the U.S./U.K. Diagnostic Project, founded in 1965, was to examine differences in the national statistics for the diagnostic frequencies among patients admitted to state mental hospitals in the United States of America and to area mental hospitals in England and Wales.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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