Do psyhiatric out-patients take their drugs?
BMJPublished 2 October 1965Open access
D. R. C. Willcox, Richard Gillan, Edward Hare
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The present study was undertaken to determine the number of psychiatric out-patients who do not take their drugs, and to examine some factors possibly associated with this.
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