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A CUMULATIVE NATIONAL PSYCHIATRIC REGISTER: ITS STRUCTURE AND APPLICATION
Author(s) -
Dupont A.,
Videbech Th.,
Weeke A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1974.tb08205.x
Subject(s) - register (sociolinguistics) , danish , psychiatry , medicine , philosophy , linguistics
The Danish Central Psychiatric Register is a cumulative register comprising all psychiatric in‐patient institutions (about 12,000 beds and about 40,000 admissions per year). The system of manual files and an EDP registration is described. Its development, method of operation and function, some applications and results are presented.