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High first admission rates for schizophrenia in the west of Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

M. J. Kelleher ,
J. R. M. Copeland  and
A. J. Smith
M. J. Kelleher*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
J. R. M. Copeland
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
A. J. Smith
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AH.
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Sysnopsis

Standardized clinical instruments were used to examine a consecutive series of 89 mental hospital admissions in the west of Ireland and 174 admissions representative of mental hospital admissions in London. The diagnoses given to these patients by the U.S./U.K. Project psychiatrists were compared with diagnoses given the same patients by the hospital psychiatrists in the two countries. Similar levels of agreement were obtained between hospital and Project psychiatrists in the two countries and, where the alcoholic patients were removed, the proportion diagnosed as schizophrenic by the Project in the two samples was identical.

Type
Preliminary Communication
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1974 , pp. 460 - 462
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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