Five-Year Follow-up Study of 100 Patients Committed to the Boston Psychopathic Hospital
- 15 July 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 251 (3) , 81-85
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195407152510301
Abstract
EDITORIAL discussion in this journal of a paper on the results of treatment in the major psychoses‡ included the suggestion that "the psychiatrist could measure the effects of therapy by means of a study of 'five-year cures' much as does the student of cancer or tuberculosis." We have sought to carry out this suggestion by charting the admissions and discharges of 100 patients, week by week, for a period of five years after each original date of admission to the hospital.MethodThe names of the first 100 patients committed to the Boston Psychopathic Hospital during the fiscal year July . . .Keywords
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- Treatment Results in the Major PsychosesNew England Journal of Medicine, 1951