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Compliance with depot medication and readmission to hospital of patients with schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Justin Gardner  and
Oscar Hill
Oscar Hill
Affiliation:
St Luke's Woodside Hospital, London N10 3HU
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This paper examines the relationship between noncompliance with depot medication and readmission to hospital of patients with schizophrenia. Noncompliance is associated with being of no fixed abode and readmission under the Mental Health Act. The merits of a community supervision order are discussed.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1994 , pp. 660 - 661
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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