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The ‘revolving door’: a profile of acute admissions at a South African psychiatric hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Zahir Vally  and
Nasera Cader
Zahir Vally
Affiliation:
Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, email z.vally@pgr.reading.ac.uk Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nasera Cader
Affiliation:
Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, email z.vally@pgr.reading.ac.uk Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Abstract

This paper reports admission rates within the acute service at a major South African tertiary psychiatric facility, Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital (LPH) in Cape Town.

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Research papers
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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 2012 , pp. 66 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2012 

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Footnotes

The authors wish to thank Felicity Haigh for her assistance in completing the data collection.

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