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Involuntary psychiatric admission: The referring general practitioners’ assessment of patients’ dangerousness and need for psychiatric hospital treatment

Ketil Røtvold Ketil Røtvold, Division of Mental Health and Addictions, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, and Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Rolf Wynn Rolf Wynn, Division of Mental Health and Addictions, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, and Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 637-642 | Accepted 28 Apr 2015, Published online: 09 Jun 2015

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Amanda Frisk Vorting, Mads Gram Henriksen & Julie Nordgaard. (2021) Changes in clinical and social situation after involuntary admission of homeless people with psychotic disorders: a one-year follow-up study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 75:6, pages 447-453.
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Maria Løvsletten, Elisabeth Haug, Arild Granerud, Kjell Nordby & Toril Smaaberg. (2016) Prevalence and management of patients with outpatient commitment in the mental health services. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 70:6, pages 401-406.
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Benedetta Silva, Mehdi Gholam, Philippe Golay, Charles Bonsack & Stéphane Morandi. (2021) Predicting involuntary hospitalization in psychiatry: A machine learning investigation. European Psychiatry 64:1.
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Florian Hotzy, Silvan Marty, Sonja Moetteli, Anastasia Theodoridou, Paul Hoff & Matthias Jaeger. (2019) Involuntary admission of psychiatric patients: Referring physicians’ perceptions of competence. International Journal of Social Psychiatry 65:7-8, pages 580-588.
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Florian Hotzy, Silvan Marty, Sonja Moetteli, Anastasia Theodoridou, Paul Hoff & Matthias Jaeger. (2019) Involuntary admission for psychiatric treatment: Compliance with the law and legal considerations in referring physicians with different professional backgrounds. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 64, pages 142-149.
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Silvan Marty, Matthias Jaeger, Sonja Moetteli, Anastasia Theodoridou, Erich Seifritz & Florian Hotzy. (2019) Characteristics of Psychiatric Emergency Situations and the Decision-Making Process Leading to Involuntary Admission. Frontiers in Psychiatry 9.
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Hanne Kilen Stuen, Anne Landheim, Jorun Rugkåsa & Rolf Wynn. (2018) How clinicians make decisions about CTOs in ACT: a qualitative study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems 12:1.
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Rolf Wynn. (2018) Involuntary admission in Norwegian adult psychiatric hospitals: a systematic review. International Journal of Mental Health Systems 12:1.
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Marisha N. Wickremsinhe. (2018) Emergency involuntary treatment law for people with mental disorders: A comparative analysis of legislation in LMICs. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 56, pages 1-9.
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Lars Henrik Myklebust, Knut Sørgaard & Rolf Wynn. (2017) How mental health service systems are organized may affect the rate of acute admissions to specialized care: Report from a natural experiment involving 5338 admissions. SAGE Open Medicine 5, pages 205031211772431.
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Christopher Patterson, Nicholas Procter & Luisa Toffoli. (2016) Situation awareness: when nurses decide to admit or not admit a person with mental illness as an involuntary patient. Journal of Advanced Nursing 72:9, pages 2042-2053.
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