RELEASE AND COMMUNITY STAY IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
LEE GUREL PH.D.1
1 Director, Psychiatric Evaluation Project (PEP), Veterans Administration Hospital, Washington, D. C.
Release and community stay data during an eight-year period were presented for a sample of 442 chronic schizophrenics transferred to 11 VA neuropsychiatric hospitals. These data reflected a rate of release which differed considerably between hospitals and which was in excess of established release probabilities for similar patients. Implications of these findings for current psychiatric thought were presented.
