Abstract
From data obtained in a follow-up study over a period of 18 years of 632 patients suffering from functional psychoses, tables have been prepared to show percentages discharged from the hospital and dying in successive years, and the percentages of readmissions of discharged patients. The factors investigated were diagnosis at onset, age and sex; and of these, diagnosis proved to be the most useful prognostic guide. The chance of discharge was high for patients in the first year of hospital life, but, thereafter, discharge was not a frequent event. The presence of an unmistakable schizophrenic picture on first admission made the outlook poor, and such patients over the age of 20 had only a 2 in 5 chance of discharge. Sex appeared to influence only the readmission rates, and these were higher in males than in females; male readmissions on the average spent less time than females outside the hospital between their first and second admissions.
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