Schizophrenia Research
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 256-263 , May 2010

Rate and predictors of service disengagement in an epidemiological first-episode psychosis cohort

  • Philippe Conus

      Affiliations

    • Treatment and Early Intervention in Psychosis Program (TIPP), Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Université de Lausanne, Clinique de Cery, Switzerland
    • Orygen Youth Health and Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Département Psychiatrie CHUV, Teatment and Early Intervention in Psychosis Program (TIPP), Clinique de Cery, 1008 Prilly, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 21 643 61 11; fax: +41 21 643 64 69.
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  • Martin Lambert

      Affiliations

    • Psychosis Early Detection and Intervention Centre (PEDIC), Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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  • Sue Cotton

      Affiliations

    • Orygen Youth Health and Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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  • Charles Bonsack

      Affiliations

    • Treatment and Early Intervention in Psychosis Program (TIPP), Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie Adulte, Université de Lausanne, Clinique de Cery, Switzerland
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  • Patrick D McGorry

      Affiliations

    • Orygen Youth Health and Research Centre, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Benno G Schimmelmann

      Affiliations

    • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland

Received 29 October 2009 ,Revised 13 January 2010 ,Accepted 29 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.01.032

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 118, Issue 1 , Pages 256-263 , May 2010

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