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Effects of hospital closure on mortality rates of the over-65 long-stay psychiatric population

✍ Scribed by Graham Alan Jackson; Jennifer Whyte

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 561 KB
Volume: 13
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(1998120)13:12<836::aid-gps871>3.0.co;2-s

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✦ Synopsis

The closure of this 100-year-old hospital has allowed us to look at the effect on mortality of moving the whole over-65 long-stay population to other settings. Our results confirm that there is a slight excess of deaths during and immediately after these moves, but that there is no longer-term effect on mortality rates.