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ArticleAustralasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists2023

A proposed clinical pathway for the patients with Borderline Personality Disorder presenting to Emergency Departments.

Beatrice Webb, Jeffrey Cl Looi, Stephen Allison, Michael Nance, Rohan Dhillon, Tarun Bastiampillai

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Article in Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Complications of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: A clinical perspective.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2025
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  3. Article
  4. A clinical pathway for the management of people with borderline personality disorder in emergency departments must not include a 'risk assessment'.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Beatrice WebbCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0832-888X
Jeffrey Cl LooiAcademic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, The Australian National University, School of Medicine and Psychology, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis (CAPIPRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3351-6911
Stephen AllisonCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy and Research Analysis (CAPIPRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9264-5310
Michael NanceMargaret Tobin Centre, Flinders Medical Centre, SA, Australia.
Rohan DhillonCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Tarun BastiampillaiCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; Consortium of Australian-Academic Psychiatrists for Independent Policy Research and Analysis (CAPIPRA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6931-2913
Flinders University · AUAustralian National University · AUFlinders Medical Centre · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveEmergency Department (ED) care of repeated self-injury, intensive affective lability, and interpersonal dysfunction associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is challenging. We propose an evidence-based acute clinical pathway for people with BPD.

conclusionOur standardised evidence-based short-term acute hospital treatment pathway includes structured ED assessment, structured short-term hospital admission when clinically indicated, and immediate short-term (4-sessions) clinical follow-up. This approach could be adopted nationally to reduce iatrogenic harm, acute service overdependence and negative healthcare system impacts of BPD.

Indexed as

Borderline Personality DisorderSelf-Injurious BehaviorCritical PathwaysEmergency Service, HospitalHospitalizationHumansborderline personality disorderclinical pathwayemergency department

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PMID37018389
PMCPMC10466980
OpenAlexW4362638791

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