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Patients in mental healthcare should be referred to as patients and not service users
Over the past few years the term ‘service users’ has been increasingly used to describe patients in mental healthcare. This paper argues that the term ‘service user’ in this context should be avoided and outlines four reasons: the term is discriminating, cynical, patronising and detrimental. Of cour...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8727380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33928897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2021.40 |