Improving initial attendance to a child and family psychiatric clinic
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- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Psychiatric Bulletin
- Vol. 14 (3) , 151-152
- https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.14.3.151
Abstract
Recent papers regarding failure to keep appointments at child psychiatry clinics (Plunkett, 1984; Gould et al, 1985; Cottrell et al, 1988) suggest from 15% to 50% failing to keep their first appointments. Benson, Novick & Rembar (1981) calculated an attrition rate of 85.4%, obtained by considering cases of non-agreed termination of treatment at any stage of the referral/treatment-uptake process.Keywords
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