Phasing out State Hospitals — A Psychiatric Dilemma
- 29 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 294 (5) , 255-261
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197601292940506
Abstract
Whether state hospitals have a role in caring for mentally ill persons has been intensely debated for the past decade. During this time the inpatient census of public mental hospitals has fallen dramatically from 490,000 to 215,000 owing to increasingly effective treatment programs for acutely and chronically psychotic patients.Keywords
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