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Sorting out the confusion in psychiatric day care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank Holloway
Frank Holloway*
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King's College Hospital Denmark Hill, London SE5
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , February 1984 , pp. 27
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