Predicting attendance at child and adolescent clinics
Open Access
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Psychiatric Bulletin
- Vol. 20 (12) , 717-718
- https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.20.12.717
Abstract
Non-attendance rates are high in child psychiatry clinics. This potential waste of resources is coming under increasing scrutiny within the NHS. This study shows that therapists themselves are good at predicting who will attend and who will not. The family's previous attendance rate is the most reliable predictor. Why then is not more use made of this information when organising clinics? Ways are suggested how attendance rates might be improved.Keywords
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