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Discrepancies and inaccuracies in statistics for detained patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Teresa Nemitz  and
Philip Bean
Teresa Nemitz
Affiliation:
Midlands Centre for Criminology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough
Philip Bean
Affiliation:
Midlands Centre for Criminology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough, Leicester LE11 3TU
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While conducting a study on the nature and extent of compulsory admissions to mental hospitals within the four London regional health authorities, discrepancies and inaccuracies were revealed in many of those mental hospital in-patient statistics. The nature and extent of some of these are examined. It is suggested that the value of such statistics for government planning must be questioned as is their value for research. It is recommended that a centralised system of collecting and collating such data be introduced as a matter of priority and that such a system be operated by the Mental Health Act Commission.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 28 - 32
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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