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The TAPS Project. 8: Design of the Research Study on the Long-Stay Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Catherine O'Driscoll  and
Julian Leff
Catherine O'Driscoll
Affiliation:
Child and Family Department, Tavistock Centre, London (formerly TAPS)
Julian Leff
Affiliation:
Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Honorary Director, TAPS, and Director, MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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Abstract

This paper describes the origins of the TAPS project and the design of the prospective study of the long-stay patient populations of Friern and Claybury hospitals, two large mental hospitals in north-east London scheduled for reprovision and closure by the regional health authority.

Type
Research Article
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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. 18 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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