Background Inpatient treatment is an expensive way of caring for people with acute
psychiatric disorders. It has been proposed that many of those currently treated as inpatients …

Acute services for mental health crises are very important to service users and their
supporters, and consume a substantial share of mental health resources in many countries …

El envejecimiento de la población está planteando la necesidad de realizar cambios
estructurales en el Sistema Nacional de Salud (SNS) con el objetivo de incrementar …

BackgroundLittle is known about the long-term outcome of involuntary admissions to
psychiatric hospitals. AimsTo assess involuntary readmissions and patients' retrospective …

Objective: This study aimed to assess involuntary inpatients' satisfaction with treatment and
explore how coercion and other factors are associated with satisfaction. Methods: An …

On the eighth day of the invasion of Iraq, a squad of Marines sat silently in the cargo
compartment of a lightly armored amphibious assault vehicle as it roared north toward …

This study aimed to investigate factors linked to perceived coercion at admission and during
treatment among voluntary inpatients. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Two …

This paper summarizes the findings for the European Region of the WPA Task Force on
Steps, Obstacles and Mistakes to Avoid in the Implementation of Community Mental Health …

Objectives Intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) have become increasingly common for
treating highly distressed patients, and a burgeoning number of IOPs are based on, or …

Multiple challenges exist integrating research into clinical practice, particularly in acute care
settings where randomized controlled trials may be impractical or unethical. Partial or day …