Voluntary and involuntary care: Three-year study of demographic and diagnostic admission statistics at an inner-city adult psychiatry unit

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 317-326

  Ng, Xiao Ting ^a   Kelly, Brendan D ^a  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Commitment of mentally ill; Ethnopsychology; Hospitals, psychiatric; Legislation and jurisprudence; Mental disorders; Social control, formal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; IRELAND; LAW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861982170     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: 18736386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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