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Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Involuntary Psychiatric
Dozens of observational studies have investigated involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, including the characteristics of patients receiving these services, factors that shape clinician decision making, and predictors of outcomes of civil commitment hearings (3, 4).Moreover, a small number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have examined outpatient commitment (i.e., court-ordered ...
Involuntary Hospitalization of Primary Care Patients
Qualitative studies of patients who have undergone involuntary psychiatric hospitalization reveal that they can develop an internalized sense of self as "mad and bad," resulting in low self-esteem, as well as feeling stigmatized and discriminated against after discharge. 23, 24 Involuntary hospitalization has also led patients to feel ...
Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Involuntary Psychiatric
and observational studies, surrounding involuntary psychi-atric hospitalization. Given recent efforts across the United States to expand the use of involuntary hospitalization, the authors call for systematic data collection to monitor, study, and guide the use of this intervention. Psychiatric Services 2023; 74:431-433; doi: 10.1176/appi.ps ...
Investigating the impact of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization on
Studies of the impact of involuntary hospitalization on subsequent outcomes at follow-up have been more mixed; for example, a handful of studies have found no association between involuntary treatment or perceived coercion and subsequent treatment engagement [14-16], while others have linked involuntary hospitalization with decreased service ...
PDF Comparing International Rates of Involuntary Hospitalization on
Comparing International Rates of Involuntary Hospitalization on Psychiatric Grounds: A Case Study Contributors: Luke Sheridan Rains Pub. Date: 2020 Product: SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health Methods: Multiple-choice questions, Case study research, Populations Disciplines: Public Health Access Date: March 30, 2020
Conditional Release: A Less Restrictive Alternative to Hospitalization
Two of these studies (10,11) randomly assigned patients to one of two groups (receipt of outpatient orders versus no receipt of outpatient orders) without attention to duration of the current inpatient episode (a conditional release would have originated with the intent of shortening an ongoing hospitalization, and the apparent focus of the two ...
Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Involuntary Psychiatric
Involuntary hospitalization is a controversial and potentially lifesaving intervention in psychiatric care; yet, to what degree is this practice evidence based? This Open Forum examines the ethical and logistical limitations to traditional research, such as randomized controlled trials and observational studies, surrounding involuntary ...
Insights and risk factors of involuntary hospitalizations through a
Involuntary psychiatric admission poses a challenge in terms of providing the most effective yet least restrictive care in accordance with each country's regulations. Effective communication and coordination between the justice, police, and healthcare systems are essential for the successful implementation of this process. This study examines the sociodemographic, clinical, and parametric ...
Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization: How Patient Characteristics
Emergency department (ED) psychiatrists face the consequential decision to pursue involuntary inpatient psychiatric admission. Research on the relationship between patient characteristics and the decision to pursue involuntary psychiatric admission is limited. Using data from 2017 to 2018 at an urban Los Angeles hospital, we used generalized linear mixed effects models to compare patients who ...
Identification of risk factors for involuntary psychiatric
The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with a high risk of involuntary psychiatric in-patient hospitalization both on the individual level and on the level of mental health services and the socioeconomic environment that patients live in. The present study expands on a previous analysis of the health records of 5764 cases admitted as in-patients in the four psychiatric ...
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Dozens of observational studies have investigated involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, including the characteristics of patients receiving these services, factors that shape clinician decision making, and predictors of outcomes of civil commitment hearings (3, 4).Moreover, a small number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have examined outpatient commitment (i.e., court-ordered ...
Qualitative studies of patients who have undergone involuntary psychiatric hospitalization reveal that they can develop an internalized sense of self as "mad and bad," resulting in low self-esteem, as well as feeling stigmatized and discriminated against after discharge. 23, 24 Involuntary hospitalization has also led patients to feel ...
and observational studies, surrounding involuntary psychi-atric hospitalization. Given recent efforts across the United States to expand the use of involuntary hospitalization, the authors call for systematic data collection to monitor, study, and guide the use of this intervention. Psychiatric Services 2023; 74:431-433; doi: 10.1176/appi.ps ...
Studies of the impact of involuntary hospitalization on subsequent outcomes at follow-up have been more mixed; for example, a handful of studies have found no association between involuntary treatment or perceived coercion and subsequent treatment engagement [14-16], while others have linked involuntary hospitalization with decreased service ...
Comparing International Rates of Involuntary Hospitalization on Psychiatric Grounds: A Case Study Contributors: Luke Sheridan Rains Pub. Date: 2020 Product: SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health Methods: Multiple-choice questions, Case study research, Populations Disciplines: Public Health Access Date: March 30, 2020
Two of these studies (10,11) randomly assigned patients to one of two groups (receipt of outpatient orders versus no receipt of outpatient orders) without attention to duration of the current inpatient episode (a conditional release would have originated with the intent of shortening an ongoing hospitalization, and the apparent focus of the two ...
Involuntary hospitalization is a controversial and potentially lifesaving intervention in psychiatric care; yet, to what degree is this practice evidence based? This Open Forum examines the ethical and logistical limitations to traditional research, such as randomized controlled trials and observational studies, surrounding involuntary ...
Involuntary psychiatric admission poses a challenge in terms of providing the most effective yet least restrictive care in accordance with each country's regulations. Effective communication and coordination between the justice, police, and healthcare systems are essential for the successful implementation of this process. This study examines the sociodemographic, clinical, and parametric ...
Emergency department (ED) psychiatrists face the consequential decision to pursue involuntary inpatient psychiatric admission. Research on the relationship between patient characteristics and the decision to pursue involuntary psychiatric admission is limited. Using data from 2017 to 2018 at an urban Los Angeles hospital, we used generalized linear mixed effects models to compare patients who ...
The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with a high risk of involuntary psychiatric in-patient hospitalization both on the individual level and on the level of mental health services and the socioeconomic environment that patients live in. The present study expands on a previous analysis of the health records of 5764 cases admitted as in-patients in the four psychiatric ...