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RELEASE AND COMMUNITY STAY IN CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.8.892

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.

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