Central questions are whether the admission was coercive, and if so, whether unethical. Whether or not involuntary admission would be justified, moral discomfort surrounds its appearance as a threat. This arises in part from ambivalence about autonomy: although a 'choice' is made, the threat of ...
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MENTAL health patients are being detained compulsorily after refusing voluntary admission to hospitals far from home. Patients sectioned after refusing distant hospitals psychiatric hospital through the voluntary admission process. THERE ARE CRACKS IN THE CIVIL COMMITMENT PROCESS: A PRACTITIONER'S RECOMMENDATI...
I was voluntarily admitted to a Neuro-psych ward, when I was really poorly. I didn’t leave my flat without a chaperone for 18 months and still in my head didn’t want to go to hospital. I made friends but it was tough and I discharged myself after 6 weeks, luckily I lived within...
Although state hospitals have been authorized to accept patients voluntarily since 1881, the law was little used until the past decade; indeed, our own experience in receiving patients indicates that even many physicians are unaware of the fact that patients may be admitted to a mental hospital ...
McGowan, "Understanding the management of people seeking voluntary psychiatric hospitalization who do not meet the criteria for inpatient admission: A qualitative study of mental health liaison nurses working in accident and emergency departments in the North of England", Archives of Psychiatric Nursing,...
Weobserved significant difference between the type of hospital and patient gender (p = 0.003), which did not occur with marital status (p = 0.688) and origin (p = 0.95). The main symptom profiles which justified the clinical admission of these patients were the use of alcohol or drugs 70...
The themes are: the extent to which the label of 'voluntary' was an indicator of the patients' experience of being in hospital of their own volition; aspects of admission which patients considered to be coercive; and the impact that coercion might have on patients' views about their problem,...
Central questions are whether the admission was coercive, and if so, whether unethical. Whether or not involuntary admission would be justified, moral discomfort surrounds its appearance as a threat. This arises in part from ambivalence about autonomy: although a 'choice' is made, the threat of ...
A retrospective analysis of hospital admission registers from three major German CAP hospitals over a period of 6 years (2004–2009) was conducted (N = 10,547 inpatients). Group comparisons between involuntarily and voluntarily treated minors and a logistic regression to determine predictors ...