Unsatisfied Relatives - Malpractice of Psychiatric Care or Economic Necessity?

Restrained Psychiatric Outpatients: Necessity, Justification or Violation of Human Rights?

Seventy patients were brought restrained to a Psychiatric outpatient department over a three month period, with the commonest site of restraint being the wrist. They were compared with controls and it was found that restrained patients were more likely to be younger, belonging to a lower socioeconomic status, from a rural background and were more likely to be diagnosed as manic. The significanc...

Psychiatric Inpatient Care under Economic Pressure

past few years. In the cost discussion in the psychiatric inpatient setting, length of inpatient stay is of great concern: duration of treatment and cost per case are closely correlated, and costs can be influenced via this indicator because, unlike in somatic medicine, the daily care rates are fixed (1). Within the specialty psychiatry and psychotherapy, the health insurance companies are dema...

Medical Malpractice, the Affordable Care Act and State Provider Shield Laws: More Myth than Necessity?

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

Care Plan for the Upset Relatives

مرگ فرزند بزرگترین و عمیق ترین اندوه در زندگی فرد بوده و وسیعترین واکنشها را در وجود آدمی بر می انگیزد. از دست دادن یک فرزند می تواند باعث ناراحتکننده ترین و طولانی ترین سوگواری گردد. چنین والدینی، فرزند و شیوه زندگی و همچنین امید به زندگی آینده را از دست خواهند داد. والدین اغلب در هنگام مصیبت احساس انزوا می کنند. دوستان، بستگان و همسایگان نمی دانند چه بگویند یا چگونه کمک کنند به همین دلیل از ...