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Published Online: August 1980

A Combined Crisis-Outpatient Clinic: A Better System for Delivery of Psychiatric Care?

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The successful merger of a crisis clinic with an adult outpatient clinic suggests that the traditional splitting of crisis and outpatient care in American psychiatry may not be optimal. In the combined clinic more patients were seen, staff time was utilized more efficiently, staff morale was increased, and educational needs were more easily satisfied. Patient care was not compromised in any way.

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Pages: 555 - 557

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Published in print: August 1980
Published online: 7 October 2014

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Claude T. H. Friedmann
Orange County Medical Center, University of California, Irvine
School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Nashville, Tennessee
Los Angeles (Calif.) Day Treatment Center

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