Coercion in psychiatric care: What have we learned from research?

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 631-637

  Lidz, Charles W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTALLY ILL; OUTPATIENT COMMITMENT; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0032438623     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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