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Predicting attendance at child and adolescent clinics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rob Potter  and
Ahmed Dorwish
Ahmed Dorwish
Affiliation:
Merthyr Rd., Pontypridd, Mid-Glam. CF37 4DD
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Abstract

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Non-attendance rates are high in child psychiatry clinics. This potential waste of resources is coming under increasing scrutiny within the NHS. This study shows that therapists themselves are good at predicting who will attend and who will not. The family's previous attendance rate is the most reliable predictor. Why then is not more use made of this information when organising clinics? Ways are suggested how attendance rates might be improved.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 12 , December 1996 , pp. 717 - 718
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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