Fryers T
Br Med J. 1973 Apr 14;2(5858):76-80. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.5858.76.
The psychiatric inpatient population from Salford was analysed in five successive annual censuses, from 1 January 1968 to 1 January 1972. Short-stay and medium-stay patients (under one year) remained constant. Long-stay patients reduced only slowly, and the length of stay increased. Over 200 patients (60%) had been in for 20 years or more at 1 January 1972. Analysis showed that the 1968 long-stay cohort diminished by 122 patients (29%) in four years, while 54 new long-stay patients accumulated. There seems little prospect of emptying large psychiatric hospitals of their long-stay population.
对索尔福德的精神科住院患者群体进行了五次连续的年度普查分析，时间跨度从1968年1月1日至1972年1月1日。短期和中期住院患者（住院时间不足一年）数量保持稳定。长期住院患者数量仅缓慢减少，且住院时间有所增加。到1972年1月1日，超过200名患者（占60%）已住院20年或更长时间。分析表明，1968年的长期住院患者群体在四年内减少了122人（29%），同时新增了54名长期住院患者。要让大型精神病院清空长期住院患者似乎前景渺茫。
