For the quality improvement, there are revision
groups consisting of former patients and their relatives. Their
task  is
to interview other patients and relatives about their impressions
of the medical health care. Preferably, yearly revisions should
be made. Since the seventies, every patient in Swedish psychiatric
care has got a contact person who handles the relations with relatives
and others.
In a special project named "Anhörig
300" in Sweden, special consults have been appointed to assist
and advise the relatives of mentally impaired individuals. However,
not all of these consults turn to the relatives of the mentally
impaired, and only a smaller fraction of the subprojects of "Anhörig
300" are directed towards this group of relatives.
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