Service users' strategies for managing risk in the volatile environment of an acute psychiatric ward

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2573-2583

  Quirk, Alan ^a   Lelliott, Paul ^a   Seale, Clive ^b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Psychiatric hospital; Risk management strategies; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL HEALTH; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SAFETY; SEX OFFENSES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 5144226160     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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