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Number needed to detain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

S. Fleminger
S. Fleminger*
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Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 171 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 287
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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