A Survey of Sentenced Prisoners Transferred to Hospital for Urgent Psychiatric Treatment over a Three-Year Period in One Region

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-40

  Huckle, P L ^a  

^a Caswell Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; PRISONERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALES;

EID: 0030635650     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249703700110     Document Type: Article

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