Recently. female offenders have drawn attention from criminologists owing to the rapid rise in the rate of crime committed by women compared to men and to their increasingly active role in the crimes. l Widom (\978) has critically reviewed various etiological considerations such as biological as well as environmental stress hypotheses to explain female criminality. One aspect of the environment...

STUDY OBJECTIVE At our 35,000 visit/year emergency department (ED), we studied whether patients presenting to the ED with psychiatric complaints were admitted to the hospital at a higher rate than non-psychiatric patients, and whether these patients had a higher rate of reevaluation in the ED within 30 days following the index visit. METHODS We reviewed the electronic records of all ED patien...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine the completeness of documentation and accuracy of medical evaluation for a sample of emergency psychiatric patients. DESIGN Descriptive, retrospective chart review. SETTING Nine hundred-bed community teaching hospital with a voluntary psychiatric inpatient unit. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS Two hundred ninety-eight emergency department patients with psychiatric chief...

BACKGROUND Emergency department (ED) delays have multiple causes and create frustration for patients and staff alike. METHODS New adult psychiatric ED consultations were studied. Elapsed time between workflow stages was tested as a predictor of total time from triage to disposition. To expedite interviews a one-page form was provided for interested patients to complete before psychiatric eval...

Evaluate the innovations of no seclusion and restricted access to Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) by: 1. Assessing the outcomes of (a) PICU transfer versus continued acute inpatient care among patients admitted to general adult wards, and of (b) seclusion versus no seclusion among PICU patients, in terms of: (i) repeated physical violence to others, injury to staff or patients, abscond...

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