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  • Title: [Clinic discharge of schizophrenic patients: treatment termination or transition? A catamnestic study of community psychiatric management].
    Author: Hell D, Zingg P.
    Journal: Psychiatr Prax; 1991 Nov; 18(6):202-8. PubMed ID: 1771201.
    Abstract:
    In order to evaluate which single or combined factors can lead to best acceptance of continuing out-patient psychiatric care, a random sample of 73 patients diagnosed as schizophrenic were entered into a follow-up study on leaving a psychiatric hospital. In a given region with only one public mental health center it was found that early and comprehensive planning of hospital dismissal, cooperation of family and--where possible--no change of the responsible therapist led to a 84% rate of patients remaining in the regional psychiatric care system, with a rehospitalisation rate of 33% within a year. Literature on the subject is reviewed in perspective of the rather high acceptance of psychiatric aftercare and the rather low rate of rehospitalisation.
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