Discharges from a chronic schizophrenic ward were compared before and after the implementation of a step-system treatment format. The subjects were 80 chronic schizophrenics equally divided by sex with a mean age of 47.1 yr. and a mean time in hospital of 19.8 yr. While the step-system format yielded no significant difference in the total number of discharges, a significantly ( p < .05) greater number of higher functioning patients were discharged while it was in effect
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