Quality monitoring in community psychiatry of learning disabilities services: Current, planned and future approaches

British Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 95-98

  Gravestock, Shaun ^a   Bouras, Nick ^a   Holt, Geraldine ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0346216471     PISSN: 13544187     EISSN: 14683156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3156.1996.tb00212.x     Document Type: Article

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