Trends in Admissions to a Regional Secure Unit (1983-1997)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Trends in Admissions to a Regional Secure Unit (1983-1997)

Published:2001-01 Issue:1 Volume:41 Page:35-40
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Brown Christine S H,Lloyd Keith R¹,Donovan Martin²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mental Health, University of Exeter

2. Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Medical Director, Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, Devon

Abstract

Admissions and discharges from a 30-bed regional secure unit (RSU) were surveyed over a 15-year period. In the last five years there has been a significant increase in the average length of stay of patients and a marked decrease in the number of admissions and discharges. The reasons for this ‘silting up’ of the RSU by longer-term patients and the consequences for an effective forensic psychiatric service are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580240104100107

Reference17 articles.

1. Secure Units: Why They are Needed

Cited by 8 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Characteristics and Needs of Long-Stay Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients: A Rapid Review of the Literature;International Journal of Forensic Mental Health;2018-01-02

2. A mixed-methods study exploring the characteristics and needs of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England: implications for service organisation;Health Services and Delivery Research;2017-02

3. Outcome of high security patients admitted to a medium secure unit: the Edenfield Centre study;Medicine, Science and the Law;2009-10

4. Study of the clinical and forensic outcome of admission to a forensic psychiatry day hospital at one, two, and three years;Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology;2009-02

5. Antipsychotic medication and length of stay at a psychiatric maximum-security unit in Norway (1987–2000);Nordic Journal of Psychiatry;2006-01