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A community‐based mental handicap out‐patient clinic: a 5‐year retrospective study
Author(s) -
SINGH T. H.,
RADHAKRISHNAN G.,
RICHARDSON E. M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1991.tb01041.x
Subject(s) - referral , mental handicap , retrospective cohort study , psychiatry , medicine , population , epilepsy , pediatrics , family medicine , surgery , environmental health
. ABSTRACT. A 5‐year retrospective study of mentally handicapped patients referred to the only community‐based mental handicap out‐patient clinic in a county with an approximate population of 360 000 is presented. The clinic has been functioning for about 10 years and has been consultant‐based. Areas for study include: referral rate; source of referral; degree of handicap; superimposed mental illness, behaviour disorder and epilepsy; and the proportion of patients needing admission to the unit for further assessment/treatment. Some implications are discussed.