Little evidence for community treatment orders – a battle fought with heavy weapons

This editorial discusses the pros and cons of community treatment orders (CTOs) from the perspective of community general adult psychiatry. There is little scientific evidence supporting the application of CTOs. Preconditions of a CTO to work are likely to be met by few patients. The time for the ap...

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Autores principales: Heun, Reinhard, Dave, Subodh, Rowlands, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27280029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052373
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spelling pubmed-48877262016-06-08 Little evidence for community treatment orders – a battle fought with heavy weapons Heun, Reinhard Dave, Subodh Rowlands, Paul BJPsych Bull Editorials This editorial discusses the pros and cons of community treatment orders (CTOs) from the perspective of community general adult psychiatry. There is little scientific evidence supporting the application of CTOs. Preconditions of a CTO to work are likely to be met by few patients. The time for the application of a CTO may be better spent for patient-centred care until there is sufficient new and robust evidence that identifies the patients that might profit. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4887726/ /pubmed/27280029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052373 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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