sort of men were being referred for reports. We particularly wanted to know their diagnosis, social background, the proportion needing hospital admission, whether that admission could have been arranged without the court, whether these people were very different from the ordinary hospital admissions and whether they needed any special nursing care. In 1963 there were 146 referrals of men to the...

INTRODUCTION Coerced admission to psychiatric hospitals, defined by legal status or patient's subjective experience, is common. Evidence on clinical outcomes however is limited. This study aimed to assess symptom change over a three month period following coerced admission and identify patient characteristics associated with outcomes. METHOD At study sites in 11 European countries consecutive...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND We compared demography, diagnoses and clinical needs in acutely admitted psychiatric hospital patients in northwest Russia and northern Norway. METHOD All acutely admitted psychiatric patients in 1 psychiatric hospital in north-west Russia and 2 in northern Norway were in a three months period assessed with HoNOS and a Norwegian form developed to study acute psychiatr...

patients. No matter how thoroughly a new drug has been tested in experimental animals, possible species differences must never be forgotten in assessing its precise effect in man. As Mr. Hanbury, of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, has recently said, " there are innumerable examples of drugs of the utmost value, even penicillin itself, which have brought life and health to millions of peopl...

Inpatient admissions to all psychiatric hospital beds in England and Wales in 1970-73 were studied by month of admission for eight diagnostic groups. The admission rates for schizophrenia showed a pronounced seasonal variation, with a maximum in summer. The seasonal pattern for schizophrenia was very similar to the one shown for mania, although somewhat less marked. The admission rates for neur...

[ HE Mental TIreatment Act (N.I.) comes into force on 1st October; and this seems an opportune occasion for placing before the medical profession in Northern Ireland a digest of the Act in so far as thev are or may be concerned. TIhe first point worthy of note is the fact that, whereas hitherto mental cases could only by treated inl public or private asylums, in future they may be received into...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between in vitro fertilization (IVF) and later admission to hospital with a mental health diagnosis in women who remained childless after infertility treatment. METHODS This was a population-based cohort study using linked administrative hospital and registry data. The study population included all women commencing hospital treatment for infertility in Wes...

Einar Kringlen (2004), in his presentation of ‘A history of Norwegian psychiatry’, totally neglects the role of Norway ́s leading post-war psychiatrist in the development of lobotomy/psychosurgery. Ørnulv Ødegård was the director of Norway’s main mental hospital, Gaustad in Oslo, for 34 years from 1938 to 1972. Although 12 of his publications are included in Kringlen’s reference list, none of th...

BACKGROUND In Japan, as in many other countries, several quality and safety assurance measures have been implemented since the 1990's. This has occurred in spite of cost containment efforts. Although government and hospital decision-makers demand comprehensive analysis of these activities at the hospital-wide level, there have been few studies that actually quantify them. Therefore, the aims of...