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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1974) 125: 208-209. doi: 10.1192/bjp.125.2.208
© 1974 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Descriptive Studies of a Psychiatric Hospital Population

MICHAEL CLARKE M.B., M.F.C.M., D.P.H.1 and JANE WALLER B.A., Soc.1

1 Lecturer, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine, St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1 7EH

Three methods of describing psychiatric hospital populations are outlined and discussed.

1. Routine data were shown to give a misleading impression unless factors, such as changes in the catchment area, were taken into account.

2. Census information confirmed the impression that the hospital studied has a large, long-stay, elderly population.

3. The cohort study demonstrated that of those patients admitted during 1968 only 5 per cent were still in hospital after two years. Length of stay varied with age, sex, marital state and diagnosis.

Submitted on July 17, 1973






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