The primary care workload and prescribing costs associated with patients with learning disability discharged from long-stay care to the community.

One-hundred-and-thirty-six patients with learning disability were discharged from a long-stay hospital to the community, and were registered with a total of 21 practices. This study estimated the additional general practice workload and prescribing costs incurred by the transferred patients, compare...

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Published in:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 9 - 13
Main Author: Chambers R
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar1998
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