Patients who abscond from hospital exclude themselves from therapy, and attempts to stop the person can quickly become confrontational with the inherent risk of aggression. Although information is available on absconding in psychiatric settings little is known about the type of person with a head injury who absconds, why such people do so, or how the problem might best be approached. This paper...

BACKGROUND Suicide prevention by mental health services requires an awareness of the antecedents of suicide amongst high risk groups such as psychiatric in-patients. The goal of this study was to describe the social and clinical characteristics of people who had absconded from an in-patient psychiatric ward prior to suicide, including aspects of the clinical care they received. METHODS We car...

This study describes the prevalence of adverse events and length of stay in forensic psychiatric patients with and without a restriction order. Detailed clinical and administrative information from medical records and written court decisions was gathered retrospectively from admission until discharge for a Swedish population-based, consecutive cohort of forensic psychiatric patients (n=125). Th...

Inexperienced individual investors are the main players in emerging FinTech industry, and also suffer from frequent negative events markets. With 3,110 467,594 transaction data of China’s peer-to-peer lending market 2015 to 2018, this paper analyzes how different types platform affect decision-making investors. We find that only have a significant reaction moral hazard exposure such as platfo...

Abstract Background Absconding (i.e., escaping) is common among patients with mental illness admitted to psychiatric hospitals. Patients use various strategies make absconding successful due the experiences faced during admission. We conducted a study identify patients’ perspectives on experience of from psychiatry facility. Methods 10 in-depth interviews history hospital who were accessing car...

background patients’ escape from hospital imposes a significant cost to patients as well as the health system. besides, for these patients, exposure to adverse events (such as suicide, self-harm, violence and harm to hospital reputation) are more likely to occur compared to others. the present study aimed to determine the characteristics of the absconding patients in a general hospital through ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the causes of delayed presentation in breast cancer patients at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), and reasons for patients absconding before and during treatment. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Out patient departments and surgical wards of KBTH. PARTICIPANTS Women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and breast cancer patients who previously absconded and were...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to examine: 1) the relationship between being a runaway and the time since the first absconding event and adolescent substance use; 2) whether different kinds of psychoactive substances have a different temporal relationship to the first absconding event; and 3) whether the various reasons for the first absconding event are associated with different risks of substanc...