Has deinstitutionalization gone too far?

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 136-143

  Munk Jorgensen P ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bed occupancy rates; Coercion; Criminality; Deinstitutionalization; Psychiatry; Readmission; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SUICIDE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BED OCCUPANCY; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RECURRENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 0032971940     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004060050078     Document Type: Article

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