ReviewBJPsych bulletin2015
Impact of involuntary out-patient commitment on reducing hospital services: 2-year follow-up.
Review in BJPsych bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Compulsory community treatment to reduce readmission to hospital and increase engagement with community care in people with mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2018Pooled it
- Hospital Utilization Outcomes Following Assignment to Outpatient Commitment.Administration and policy in mental health · 2021Review
- Little evidence for community treatment orders - a battle fought with heavy weapons.BJPsych bulletin · 2016Article
- Effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders: The International Evidence.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2016Review
- Impact of involuntary out-patient commitment on reducing hospital services: 2-year follow-up.BJPsych bulletin · 2015Review
- Naturalistic studies evaluating 'real world' OPC patients are welcome.BJPsych bulletin · 2015Article
- The epistemic challenges of CTOs: Commentary on . . . Community treatment orders.Psychiatric bulletin (2014) · 2014Article
- The utility of outpatient civil commitment: Investigating the evidence.International journal of law and psychiatryReview
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
Aims and method To evaluate whether involuntary out-patient commitment (OPC) in patients with severe mental disorder reduces their use of hospital services. This is a retrospective case-control study comparing a group of patients on OPC (n = 75) and a control group (n = 75) which was composed of patients whose sociodemographic variables and clinical characteristics were similar to those of the OPC group. Each control case is paired with an OPC case, so the control case must have an involuntary admission in the month that the index OPC case admission occurred. Emergency room visits, admissions and average length of hospital stay over a 2-year follow-up after the initiation of OPC were compared. Results No statistically significant evidence was found in the use of mental healthcare services between the two groups. Different reasons for admission found between the groups limit similarity when comparing the two. Clinical implications The findings cast doubt over the effectiveness of this legal measure to reduce emergency visits, the number of admissions and the length of stay in the hospital.
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