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Child Adolesc Ment Health
November 2024
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Background: Influence of architectural features in child and adolescent psychiatric wards on coercive measure use has not been investigated so far. We aimed to assess the effect of altering the physical environment of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit on the proportion and frequency of adolescents experiencing mechanical coercive measures.
Method: In a naturalistic observational design, coercive measures were compared before and after an architectural intervention facilitated by rebuilding a child and adolescent psychiatric department in October 2020.
Postgrad Med J
May 2019
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
BMJ Support Palliat Care
September 2019
St George's University of London, Surrey CR4 1NT, UK
Dementia is an increasingly recognised medical condition which, towards its later stages, leads to the manifestation of symptoms that often require palliation. Hospice admission for patients with dementia has been shown to increase caregiver satisfaction. Yet, admission can be harmful for the patient.
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November 2014
Fachklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, kbo-Lech-Mangfall-Klinik, Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The development of the lump-sum reimbursement System in psychiatry and psychosomatics (PEPP) (Klimke et al., 2014) is being negatively considered - also in gerontopsychiatry.Thus it is reasonable to make a timely analysis of the effects of PEPP on health-care structures.
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April 2014
Community Mental Health Nurse at Gordon Hospital, Bloomburg Street, London.
The National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health in 1999 was central to the modernisation of mental health services under the New Labour government of 1997. It placed an emphasis on universal clinical standards and set out a vision for service developments over the next 10 years. One such proposal was the development of crisis resolution teams, aimed at reducing the psychiatric admissions rate by providing care at home.
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