A Prospective, Multicenter Study of Patients' Refusal of Antipsychotic Medication

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 949-956

  Hoge, Steven K ^a   Appelbaum, Paul S ^a   Lawlor, Ted ^a   Beck, James C ^b   Litman, Robert ^c   Greer, Alexander ^a   Gutheil, Thomas G ^b   Kaplan, Eric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COURT; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; SOCIAL CLASS;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COMPETENCE; CONTROL GROUPS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EVALUATION; INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; JUDICIAL ACTION; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTALLY ILL; POLICY ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; RISKS AND BENEFITS; SURVEY;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0025049829     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810220065008     Document Type: Article

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