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The Discharged Patient's Drug Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Brian R. Ballinger
Brian R. Ballinger*
Affiliation:
Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Liff, by Dundee, DD2 5NF, Angus, Scotland
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When a doctor sees a patient it is important that he should have an accurate account of that patient's previous drug treatment. An earlier study (Ballinger and Stewart, 1971) showed that there were inconsistencies in the various reports of a patient's drug treatment immediately before admission to a psychiatric hospital. It seemed very likely that this problem was not limited to this one situation, and general practitioners have often criticized the quality of the information received after a patient has been discharged from hospital. The present survey attempted to assess the quality of the information about drug treatment sent to general practitioners at the time of discharge.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 578 , January 1974 , pp. 60 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

References

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