Characteristics associated with involuntary versus voluntary legal status at admission and discharge among psychiatric inpatients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 981-988

  Craw, Jason ^a   Compton, Michael T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Commitment; Compulsory; Involuntary; Voluntary

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33846097230     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0122-7     Document Type: Article

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