The Mental Health Act 1983 Section 5(2): Clinical application and predictors of outcome

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 170-173

  Dearman, Samuel P ^a   Waheed, Waquas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DETENTION; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; DECISION MAKING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; VIOLENCE;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 0037610215     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.43.2.170     Document Type: Article

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