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The TAPS Project. 7: Mental Hospital Closure - A Literature Review of Outcome Studies and Evaluative Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Catherine O'Driscoll
Catherine O'Driscoll*
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Child and Family Department, Tavistock Centre, London (formerly TAPS)
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Abstract

Various techniques have been used to assess the results of ‘deinstitutionalisation’. This paper reviews these outcome studies, most of which have concluded that a new long-stay group will replace the old long-stay patients, and that a residual group of ageing patients, mostly with organic syndromes, is difficult to accommodate in the community.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue S19: The TAPS Project: Evaluating Community Placement of Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients , April 1993 , pp. 7 - 17
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Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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