Law & psychiatry: Assessing Kendra's law: Five years of outpatient commitment in New York

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 791-792

  Appelbaum, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EVALUATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

AMBULATORY CARE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; NEW YORK; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 22044442525     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.56.7.791     Document Type: Short Survey

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