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Determinants of emergency involuntary admission
Background Although this was not intended by the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, the overall number of involuntary admissions has steeply increased across Europe. In the Netherlands, the number of compulsory admissions has more than doubled since 1979, rising from 23 to over 46 per 100.000 inhabitants in 2004. In the Amsterdam area, the number of compulsory admissions has increa...
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Involuntary treatment of psychiatric disorders has always been controversial; this is especially true for eating disorders. Patients with anorexia nervosa of life threatening severity frequently refuse psychiatric hospitalization. Ambivalence toward treatment is characteristic of eating disorders and patients are often admitted to inpatient programs under pressure from family and doctors. In th...
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Background It is an important objective of the psychiatric services to keep the use of involuntary procedures to a minimum, as the use of coercion involves clinical, ethical, and legal issues. It has been claimed that Norway has a relatively high rate of involuntary admissions. We reviewed the peer-reviewed literature on the use of involuntary admission in Norway, with the purpose of identifyin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.31.7.273