Can states implement involuntary outpatient commitment within existing state budgets?

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-9

  Swartz, Marvin S ^a   Swanson, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COST CONTROL; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; INVOLUNTARY OUTPATIENT COMMITMENT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTPATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNITED STATES; AMBULATORY CARE; COST; CRIMINAL LAW; ECONOMICS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULATORY CARE; BUDGETS; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CRIMINAL LAW; HUMANS; NEW YORK; NORTH CAROLINA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878889937     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200467     Document Type: Article

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