Self-Harm Patients Not Admitted to Hospital

In recent years a large proportion of self-harm patients attending hospital have not been admitted to medical or short-stay wards but have returned home directly from accident and emergency departments. A continued trend towards such a policy seems likely despite limited and conflicting evidence on...

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Autor principal: Owens, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2258843
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description In recent years a large proportion of self-harm patients attending hospital have not been admitted to medical or short-stay wards but have returned home directly from accident and emergency departments. A continued trend towards such a policy seems likely despite limited and conflicting evidence on its desirability. The clinical, training and epidemiological implications of changes in self-harm admission policy are outlined, together with recommendations concerning clinical audit.
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spelling pubmed-53875422019-01-22 Self-Harm Patients Not Admitted to Hospital Owens, David J R Coll Physicians Lond Articles In recent years a large proportion of self-harm patients attending hospital have not been admitted to medical or short-stay wards but have returned home directly from accident and emergency departments. A continued trend towards such a policy seems likely despite limited and conflicting evidence on its desirability. The clinical, training and epidemiological implications of changes in self-harm admission policy are outlined, together with recommendations concerning clinical audit. Royal College of Physicians of London 1990-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5387542/ /pubmed/2258843 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1990 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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