Hospital & community psychiatry
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Nov 1993
Police referral to psychiatric emergency services and its effect on disposition decisions.
Some clinicians and researchers have questioned the appropriateness of police referrals to psychiatric emergency services and have suggested that police exercise undue influence on hospital admission decisions. The purpose of this study was to test these assertions. ⋯ Police did not exercise undue influence on dispositions nor were the patients they brought in more "criminal" than others.
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Nov 1993
Comorbid substance abuse and recovery from acute psychiatric relapse.
The study investigated whether chronic mentally ill patients whose psychiatric relapse was complicated by active substance abuse recovered from relapse at a different rate than similar patients with no comorbid substance abuse. ⋯ Results suggest that use of a urine toxicology screen and the BPRS early in treatment may aid in assessing the acute course of several psychiatric disorders and the effect of comorbidity.