Patients who fail to attend their first psychiatric outpatient appointment: Non-attendance or inappropriate referral?
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Mental Health
- Vol. 2 (1) , 81-83
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09638239309016957
Abstract
All new referrals to a psychiatric out-patient clinic at a District General Hospital over one year were analysed. There was a non-attendance rate of 22%. The quality of referral letter for non-attenders was significantly worse than for the attenders. The implications of these results in organising psychiatric out-patient clinics are discussed. It is argued that some of these referrals may have been inappropriate.Keywords
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