What happens to special hospital patients admitted to medium security?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-349

  Quinn, Patrick ^a   Ward, Mark ^b  

^a SOUTH WEST YORKSHIRE PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Norvic Clinic   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRISONER; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPATHY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034304493     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580240004000410     Document Type: Article

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