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Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volume 28, Issue 6, November–December 1987, Pages 530-535
Comprehensive Psychiatry

Long-term follow-up of borderline patients in a general hospital

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Abstract

One hundred borderline patients from a general hospital population were followed for a mean of 15 years. Seventy-five percent were no longer diagnosable as borderline. All scales of the Diagnostic Index for Borderlines (DIB) showed reduction of symptomatic behavior. The mean Health-Sickness Rating Scale (HSRS) was 63, with clear functional improvement. However, there was a high risk of completed suicide (8.5%).

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