The prediction of outcome in elderly psychiatric patients

1 August 1976

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine

Vol. 6 (3) , 469-479
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700015919

Abstract

Synopsis Clinical and psychometric characteristics of a sample of elderly psychiatric patients were established soon after admission and they were then followed for 1 year. Anoutcome was most successful for an unfavourable type which was predictable by measures related to intellectual impairment.

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