Why the evidence for outpatient commitment is good enough

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 808-811

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; AMBULATORY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCEDURES;

AMBULATORY CARE; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84901916184     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300424     Document Type: Review

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