Involuntary First Admission of Patients With Schizophrenia as a Predictor of Future Admissions

1 August 1999

journal article
Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in Psychiatric Services

Vol. 50 (8) , 1049-1052
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.8.1049

Abstract

The extent to which the legal status of a first psychiatric admission-voluntary or involuntary-predicted the legal status and number of future admissions was examined among patients with schizophrenia.

Keywords

SCHIZOPHRENIA
FUTURE ADMISSIONS
LEGAL STATUS
PREDICTOR
INVOLUNTARY PREDICTED
PSYCHIATRIC ADMISSION
ADMISSION VOLUNTARY

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