Discharges Against Medical Advice From Voluntary Psychiatric Units
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services
- Vol. 27 (12) , 859-864
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.12.859
Abstract
About one in every six voluntary mental patients discharges himself against medical advice. But despite the high rate of AMA discharges, the authors found the literature on the subject to be sparse and of little help in explaining why patients leave the hospital against medical advice. They examine the approaches that have been used thus far to study the phenomenon. They also report the findings of their own study, which showed that patients discharged against medical advice had a poorer response to treatment than those discharged in the traditional manner. The study identified factors that contributed to the poor response and were related to the discharge.Keywords
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