No evidence for restrictive care practices in Maori admitted to a New Zealand psychiatric inpatient unit: Do specialist cultural teams have a role?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 387-391

  Kumar, Shailesh ^a   Ng, Bradley ^a   Simpson, Alexander ^a   Fischer, Jesse ^a   Robinson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ethnic minority groups; Maori; Restrictive care practice; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD DISORDER; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEAMWORK; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PSYCHIATRY; RURAL POPULATION; SPECIALISM;

EID: 42649132888     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0320-6     Document Type: Article

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