The American Psychiatric Association's resource document on guidelines for psychiatric fitness-for-duty evaluations of physicians.

Commentary: The clinical implications of doctors' evaluating doctors.

The American Psychiatric Association Guidelines for Psychiatric Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations of Physicians is a welcome resource document for forensic examiners who perform independent medical examinations of potentially impaired physicians. Anecdotal and published reports indicate that requests for such evaluations are growing; hence, there is growing attention to the process of conducting the...

Commentary: Quality improvement and psychiatric fitness-for-duty evaluations of physicians.

A physician’s fitness for duty is of great importance to a variety of parties, including the general public, yet it is not often addressed in the professional literature. Requests for mental health evaluations of a physician’s fitness for duty originate from state medical boards, hospital medical staffs, human resource departments of hospitals, impaired-physician or other diversion programs, or...

The American Psychiatric Association's resource document on mental retardation and capital sentencing: implementing Atkins v. Virginia.

State legislatures need guidance in implementing the United States Supreme Court's decision in Atkins v. Virginia barring execution of mentally retarded offenders. In this Resource Document, the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Psychiatry and Law, the component charged with developing policies and positions relating to forensic psychiatry, recommends statutory language addressing t...

Designing and accrediting the evidence-based care guidelines on insomnia and constipation in psychiatric patients

Background:Evidence-based care guidelines are one of the new ways to improve the quality of care and increase patient satisfaction. In addition to the mental and emotional problems, mentally ill patient suffers from multiple health problems. The most common patient's bio-psycho problems are insomnia and constipation. Aim: The aim of this study was to designing and Accredit the evidence-based ca...

Critique of the American Psychiatric Association's guidelines for state legislation on civil commitment of the mentally ill.