Clinical relevance of findings in trials of antipsychotics: systematic review.

Background: There is concern over the methods used to evaluate antipsychotic drugs.

Aims: To assess the clinical relevance of findings in the literature.

Method: A systematic review identified studies of antipsychotics that used the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).

Deprivation of liberty safeguards: how prepared are we?

The Mental Health Act 2007 introduced Deprivation of Liberty safeguards into the Mental Capacity Act 2005 with potentially far reaching resource implications. There appears to be no scientific data regarding the prevalence of deprivation of liberty in clinical settings such as hospitals and nursing homes. We examined how many patients across a whole Trust area in Wales were subject to some lack of capacity, how well documented this was and how many were potentially deprived of their liberty.