Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:73-75
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
A note on some recent studies of released mental hospital patients in the community
LL Bachrach
The author conducted a literature search for follow-up studies of patients
released from state mental hospitals to the community to assess the impact
of released patients and the community on one another. She found that the
follow-up studies lacked comparability in several ways and concludes that
there is a need for greater comparability in future studies so that their
validity as indicators of patients' postrelease functioning may be
increased.
