Compulsory community treatment orders (CTOs): recent research and future directions

Compulsory community treatment orders (CTOs) are controversial because the right to refuse treatment is overridden, even when patients may not be acutely unwell. Scrutiny of outcomes associated with CTOs is therefore required. This editorial provides an overview of the evidence for CTOs. It also dis...

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Autores principales: Beaglehole, Ben, Tennant, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10228233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37212164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.71
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description Compulsory community treatment orders (CTOs) are controversial because the right to refuse treatment is overridden, even when patients may not be acutely unwell. Scrutiny of outcomes associated with CTOs is therefore required. This editorial provides an overview of the evidence for CTOs. It also discusses recent papers reporting outcomes associated with CTOs and makes recommendations for researchers and clinicians to consider.
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spelling pubmed-102282332023-05-31 Compulsory community treatment orders (CTOs): recent research and future directions Beaglehole, Ben Tennant, Matthew BJPsych Open Editorial Compulsory community treatment orders (CTOs) are controversial because the right to refuse treatment is overridden, even when patients may not be acutely unwell. Scrutiny of outcomes associated with CTOs is therefore required. This editorial provides an overview of the evidence for CTOs. It also discusses recent papers reporting outcomes associated with CTOs and makes recommendations for researchers and clinicians to consider. Cambridge University Press 2023-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10228233/ /pubmed/37212164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.71 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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