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Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry
Swift medically led scientifically informed responses to the Covid-19 epidemic nationally have been demonstrably superior to other, non-scientific approaches. In forensic psychiatry and across all psychiatric services, urgent and clinically led responses have underlined redundancies and confusions i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32434610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.58 |
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description | Swift medically led scientifically informed responses to the Covid-19 epidemic nationally have been demonstrably superior to other, non-scientific approaches. In forensic psychiatry and across all psychiatric services, urgent and clinically led responses have underlined redundancies and confusions in the governance of mental health services and a vacuum in policy makers. For the future, a greater emphasis on services for patients with schizophrenia and other severe, enduring mental disorders must aim at reducing standardised mortality ratios, managing risk of violence and improving hard outcomes such as symptomatic remission, functional recovery and forensic recovery of autonomy. This will require more use of information technology at service level and at national level where Scandinavian-style population-based data linkage research must now become legally sanctioned and necessary. A national research and development centre for medical excellence in forensic psychiatry is urgently required and is complimentary to and different from quality management. |
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spelling | pubmed-75568982020-10-16 Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry Kennedy, H. G. Mohan, D. Davoren, M. Ir J Psychol Med Perspective Piece Swift medically led scientifically informed responses to the Covid-19 epidemic nationally have been demonstrably superior to other, non-scientific approaches. In forensic psychiatry and across all psychiatric services, urgent and clinically led responses have underlined redundancies and confusions in the governance of mental health services and a vacuum in policy makers. For the future, a greater emphasis on services for patients with schizophrenia and other severe, enduring mental disorders must aim at reducing standardised mortality ratios, managing risk of violence and improving hard outcomes such as symptomatic remission, functional recovery and forensic recovery of autonomy. This will require more use of information technology at service level and at national level where Scandinavian-style population-based data linkage research must now become legally sanctioned and necessary. A national research and development centre for medical excellence in forensic psychiatry is urgently required and is complimentary to and different from quality management. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7556898/ /pubmed/32434610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.58 Text en © College of Psychiatrists of Ireland 2020 http://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 in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Perspective Piece Kennedy, H. G. Mohan, D. Davoren, M. Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title | Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title_full | Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title_fullStr | Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title_full_unstemmed | Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title_short | Forensic psychiatry and Covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
title_sort | forensic psychiatry and covid-19: accelerating transformation in forensic psychiatry |
topic | Perspective Piece |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32434610 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.58 |
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