Doubts About the Clinical Effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders

Community treatment orders.

2 They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game Preface Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) were introduced to Western Australia as part of the Mental Health Act 1996 (the 'Act') which came into force on 13 November 1997. In line with the use of C...

Doubts about dementia diagnoses.

Doubts about quantal analysis.

TO THE EDITOR: In an impressive series of articles, Korn and co-workers (e.g., Faber and Korn 1988; Faber et al. 1992, 1995; Korn et al. 1981, 1982, 1987; reviews in Korn and Faber 1991, 2005) described electrophysiological recordings performed on goldfish Mauthner cells and adjacent inhibitory interneurons. In their founding article, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Korn and collea...

A synthesis of literature on the effectiveness of community orders

An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders.

OBJECTIVES It is unclear whether community treatment orders (CTOs) for people with severe mental illnesses can reduce health service use, or improve clinical and social outcomes. Randomized controlled trials of CTOs are rare because of ethical and logistical concerns. This meta-analysis updates available evidence. METHOD A systematic literature search was performed of the Cochrane Schizophren...