Hospitalisation for Mental Illness

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Reviewed September 2008

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Title:   Mental illness treatments
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   When someone first starts to develop symptoms of mental illness, contact a doctor or a community mental health service for help. Treatment in the community, rather than in a hospital, is considered better for a person's mental health. Effective treatment involves more than medications.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The time spent in hospital for people with serious mental illness has declined in high income countries over the past 30 years due to changes in the health care policies; with more emphasis placed nowadays on community care. We reviewed the effects of p...
Title:   Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In the Caribbean, people with acute psychotic illnesses may be managed in the general medical wards of local hospitals rather than specialised psychiatric units. In this review we attempted to find any good quality trial-based evidence to support this p...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Psychiatric hospitals or wards
Publisher:   Inspire Foundation
Description:   Psychiatric hospitals or wards specialise in treating people experiencing a range of different mental illnesses, including depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and eating disorders. Check out this factsheet for more info including what they are and what to expect.
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Housing and Accomodation Support Initiative (HASI) evaluation final report
Publisher:   NSW Department of Health
Description:   This is the final Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Stage One evaluation report. The program follows psychosocial rehabilitation principles and aims to assist people with mental health problems and disorders requiring accommodation support to participate in the community, maintain successful tenancies, improve quality of life and assist in the recovery from mental illness.
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder.
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   Mental health laws and involuntary patients
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The 'Mental Health Act 1986' states that every involuntary patient must be given a written statement of their rights. If they need help to exercise those rights, the patient can ask someone of their choice to assist them - perhaps a staff member, case manager, friend, relative, lawyer or doctor.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Mother and baby units for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While surveys have reported that many women strongly prefer admission to MBUs, there are concerns that admitting a baby to a psychiatric unit for long periods of time may be harmful in terms of institutionalisation of the baby, and the rarer potential r...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with severe mental illness can experience violent and aggressive episodes which can threaten both their safety and that of their carers. We looked for trials comparing different non-pharmaceutical containment strategies for people with severe men...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Report on the evaluation of the National Minimum Data Set for admitted patient mental health care
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   The report presents the Institute's most comprehensive evaluation to date of the data collected for the National Minimum Data Set for Admitted Patient Mental Health Care.
Date:   Jul 2005
Title:   Hospital admission, community care and the NSW Mental Health Act
Publisher:   Mental Health Association NSW
Description:   The NSW Mental Health Act 1990 (with 1997 amendments) has particular legal definitions that are important to understand if you, a friend or relative are admitted to hospital under the Mental Health Act.
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   HELP! It's out there
Publisher:   Mental Health Association NSW
Description:   Discusses sources of help if you (or someone you know) is having a mental problem.
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   Mental illness: fact and fiction
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every hundred people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder. Overall, about twenty in every hundred people will experience some form of mental health problem at some time in their lives.
Date:   Jan 2005
Title:   Admitted patient mental health care. National minimum data set: National health data dictionary, Version 12
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   The report contains the Admitted patient mental health care NMDS and its associated data elements and data element concepts.
Date:   Sep 2003
Title:   Summary Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guideline for the management of adult deliberate self-harm (2003)
Publisher:   Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Description:   This guideline covers self-harm regardless of intent. It discusses the treatment of patients and the challenges in providing effective services, particularly in light of the need to screen for and manage suicide risk in a diverse patient group.
Date:   Jun 2003
Title:   Day hospital versus admission for acute psychiatric disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Day hospitals are a less restrictive alternative to inpatient admission for people who are acutely and severely mentally ill. This review compares acute day hospital care to inpatient care. It was found that at least one in five patients currently admit...
Date:   Nov 2002
Title:   Day hospital versus out-patient care for psychiatric disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychiatric day hospitals offer care that is less restrictive than in-patient care but more intense than out-patient care. Day hospitals can be used to provide more intense/specialised care to treatment-resistant out-patients (day treatment programmes) ...
Date:   Feb 2001
Title:   A national model for the collection and analysis of a minimum data set with outcome measures for private, hospital-based, psychiatric services
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   The National Model was developed as a mechanism capable of objectively demonstrating the quality of services provided by psychiatrists and private psychiatric hospitals.
Date:   May 2000
Title:   Assertive community treatment for people with severe mental disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) was developed in the early 1970s as a response to the closing down of psychiatric hospitals. ACT is a team-based approach aiming at keeping ill people in contact with services, reducing hospital admissions and improving outcome, especially social functioning and quality of life.
Title:   Case management for people with severe mental disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Since the 1960s, in many parts of the world, large psychiatric were closed down and people were treated in outpatient clinics, day centres or community mental health centres. Rising readmission rates suggested that this type of community care may be less effective than anticipated...
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