Reappraising community treatment orders — can there be consensus?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 202, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 415-417

  Kisely, Steve ^a   O’Reilly, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIOLENCE; AUSTRALIA; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK; NORTH CAROLINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929992342     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja14.00663     Document Type: Article

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