• Military medicine · Feb 1993

    Review

    Against medical advice: Part I, A review of the literature.

    • E K Jeffer.
    • Army National Guard, Alexandria, VA 22302-1454.
    • Mil Med. 1993 Feb 1;158(2):69-73.

    AbstractAs a preliminary step to studying the Army's experience with against medical advice (AMA) discharges, the literature was reviewed. Fifty-one articles were found through a computer program search. These articles reported widely varying rates depending upon the type of patient, primary diagnosis, and type of setting. Patients with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems are at significantly higher risk for AMA. No civilian studies have been identified which evaluate long-term trends.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…