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The decision process of the mental health review tribunal—2. Analysis of research findings
(1983)In response to applications, the tribunal should have the power to order delayed discharge by a given date. Improved access to the tribunal should help to safeguard some patients in the future from the dilemmas resulting ... -
The decision process of the mental health review tribunal—I. Review of literature and research
(1983)The aims and intentions of this analysis are: To review the literature and previous research about the mental health review tribunals from the time they were established by the Mental Health Act 1959 and commenced operation ... -
Fitness to plead and psychiatric reports
(1989)The role of the psychiatrist in the determination of fitness to plead is reviewed by reference to 77 pre-trial psychiatric reports prepared on 31 Special Hospital patients detained under the provision of Section 5(1)(c) ... -
Computer aided interviewing in psychiatric social work
(1993)This paper describes a research project on the process of collecting information for psychiatric social history. Subjects were patients’ parents. Ten subjects were interviewed by computer and fourteen by persons. Unstructured ... -
Hand-held computers in clinical audit: A comparison with established paper and pencil methods
(1994)The performance of hand-held computer terminals was compared with that of paper and pencil data collection methods. The study was carried out on two wards, with a comparative study in the medical audit unit at Rampton ... -
The closure of a long-stay psychiatric hospital: A longitudinal study of patients' behavior
(1994)This paper summarises longitudinal data based on repeat assessments of the behavioural functioning of 90 long-stay psychiatric patients. Data were gathered over a period of 4-5 years that spanned a hospital closure and the ... -
Developing a computerised caseload database
(1994)Health visitors are employed to promote actively the health of the community. This role frequently involves visits to clients, to assess their individual health needs and to promote good health practice. Angela Pogmore ... -
A survey of the prescribing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors by psychiatrists
(1995)Questionnaires were sent to 92 doctors asking them aspects of their antidepressant prescribing; 72 returned them. Sixty had prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the previous year. The ratio of SSRIs ... -
Improving delivery of care through change management
(1996)This article describes an evidence-based care initiative and programme of clinical change which set out to improve the delivery of nursing care and related health outcomes for mentally disordered offender patients at Rampton ... -
Destination and dependency of psychogeriatric inpatients at discharge from Nottingham hospitals following the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act
(1996)This study examines the impact of the National Health Service (NHS) and Community Care Act on the discharge of patients from inpatient psychogeriatric wards in Nottingham. All inpatients discharged from five psychogeriatric ... -
Bridging the research-practice gap: The role of the link nurse
(1996)There has been much discussion about the need to reduce the gap between nursing research and nursing practice ( Polit and Hungler 1993 ). McKenna ( 1995 ) argued that while strict research activity is the job of only a ... -
Observing and describing nursing interactions
(1996)This article describes the development of a programme to collect qualitative data on components of nursing care behaviour to supplement quantitative methods. Using hand-held computer technology, data were collected in ... -
Measuring psychiatric nursing interventions: How much care is individualized?
(1996)The nursing process was introduced to develop the contribution of nursing and adopt a more systematic approach to care delivery. Few in-depth studies have yet described its true impact and level of implementation. The study ...
