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Patients who fail to attend their first psychiatric outpatient appointment: Non-attendance or inappropriate referral?

Basem T. Farid
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Eduardo Alapont
Pages 81-83 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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MelissaK. Daniels & Sandy Jung. (2009) Missed initial appointments at an outpatient forensic psychiatric clinic. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 20:6, pages 964-973.
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Catherine Snape, Sara Perren, Lesley Jones & Nancy Rowland. (2003) Counselling — Why not? A qualitative study of people's accounts of not taking up counselling appointments. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 3:3, pages 239-245.
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G.E. Zuriff. (2000) The Art of Referral in a University Mental Health Center. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 15:1, pages 43-57.
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IAN JAMES & JUDY MILNE. (1997) Opting into treatment: Increasing the rate of first appointment attendance with a community addiction team. Journal of Mental Health 6:3, pages 281-288.
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Jennifer Sweetman, Peter Knapp, Danielle Varley, Rebecca Woodhouse, Dean McMillan & Peter Coventry. (2021) Barriers to attending initial psychological therapy service appointments for common mental health problems: A mixed-methods systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders 284, pages 44-63.
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Serhat Simsek, Thomas Tiahrt & Ali Dag. (2020) Stratifying no-show patients into multiple risk groups via a holistic data analytics-based framework. Decision Support Systems 132, pages 113269.
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Michael J. Drabkin, Shari Lobel, Nalini Kanth, Alexander Martynov, Harold W. HuntIIIIII, Dahlia Guerrero, Joshua Fogel, Anne Grechanik, Christine D. Mancuso & Steven Lev. (2019) Telephone reminders reduce no-shows: A quality initiative at a breast imaging center. Clinical Imaging 54, pages 108-111.
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Jody Long, Ken Sakauye, Khaja Chisty & John Upton. (2016) The Empty Chair Appointment. SAGE Open 6:1, pages 215824401562509.
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Elizabeth Murphy, Warren Mansell, Sally Craven, Joanne Menary & Phil McEvoy. (2012) Pilot Study of an Investigation of Psychological Factors Associated with First Appointment Nonattendance in a Low-Intensity Service. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 41:4, pages 458-469.
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W.Nathalie Feitsma, Roel Popping & Daniëlle E. M. C. Jansen. (2010) No-Show at a Forensic Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 56:1, pages 96-112.
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Alex J. Mitchell & Thomas Selmes. (2018) Why don't patients attend their appointments? Maintaining engagement with psychiatric services. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 13:6, pages 423-434.
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Tony Hostick & Rob Newell. (2004) Concordance with community mental health appointments: service users' reasons for discontinuation. Journal of Clinical Nursing 13:7, pages 895-902.
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Brian Minty & Cameron Anderson. (2016) Non-Attendance at Initial Out-Patient Appointments at a Hospital-Based Child Psychiatric Clinic. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 9:3, pages 403-418.
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Susan Conaghan, Elspeth Traynor, Kate Davidson & George Ralston. (2000) The efficacy of opt-in systems: evidence to the contrary. Clinical Psychology Forum 1:138, pages 36-38.
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A. L. Pillay, M. B. W. van Der Veen & M. C. G. Guilfoyle. (2016) Nonattendance at a General Hospital Psychological Clinic in South Africa. Psychological Reports 83:2, pages 695-701.
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A. L. PILLA. (1998) NONATTENDANCE AT A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC IN SOUTH AFRICA. Psychological Reports 83:6, pages 695.
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Tania Fox & Adrian Skinner. (1997) Giving clients information about non-attendance: does this reduce the number who “fail to attend”?. Clinical Psychology Forum 1:110, pages 20-24.
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Andrew Green. (2016) An Audit of Occupational Therapy Outpatient Attendance. British Journal of Occupational Therapy 60:9, pages 384-388.
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Ian Hughes. (1995) Why do they stop coming? Reasons for therapy termination by adult clinical psychology clients. Clinical Psychology Forum 1:81, pages 7-11.
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C. W. Rusius. (2018) Improving out-patient attendance using postal appointment reminders. Psychiatric Bulletin 19:5, pages 291-292.
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