Leaving the Hospital against Medical Advice

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Abstract
THE patients who sign out of general hospitals against advice have received little attention in the medical literature. A survey of the problem in our hospital in 1974 revealed the incidence of such discharges to be 0.7 per cent and found evidence of addiction to alcohol or drugs in 58 per cent of the patients involved.1 We have extended this survey by reviewing the records of all patients discharged against advice from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital during the two years from January 1, 1974, through December 31, 1975, and by including additional data on the demographic, psychiatric and behavioral . . .

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