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Systematic Reviews on Hospitalisation for Mental Illness
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence about hospitalisation for psychiatric disorders and mental illness.
Reviewed November 2011
11 Resources Found
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| Title: | Brief interventions for heavy alcohol users admitted to general hospital wards |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Heavy or dangerous patterns of drinking alcohol can lead to accidents, injuries, physical and psychiatric illnesses, frequent sickness, absence from employment and social problems. Long term alcohol consumption has harmful effects on almost all organs o... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Day hospital versus admission for acute psychiatric disorders |
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| 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. We found that at least one in five patients currently admitted ... |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Psychoeducation added to standard treatment for schizophrenia reduces relapse |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The purpose of patient education/teaching (or psychoeducation) is to increase patients' knowledge and understanding of their illness and treatment. It is supposed that increased knowledge enables people with schizophrenia to cope more effectively with t... |
| Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Title: | Day hospital versus outpatient care for people with schizophrenia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychiatric day hospitals offer care that is less restrictive than inpatient care but more intense than outpatient care. Day hospitals can be used to provide more intense/specialised outpatient care to people resistant to treatment (day treatment progra... |
| Date: | May 2009 |
| Title: | At this time, benzodiazepines cannot be recommended for the treatment of non-alcohol related delirium |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | A systematic review of benzodiazepine treatment of non-alcohol related delirium discovered very few trials (one randomized, controlled study of mechanically ventilated patients, and thus poorly reflective of delirious patients as a whole; and two partia... |
| Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Title: | Inpatient versus other settings for detoxification for opioid dependence |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dependence on opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine, is a serious problem in many societies. Opioids are very difficult to quit using. The first step to quitting is detoxification, which can cause a number of painful symptoms as the drug w... |
| Date: | May 2008 |
| Title: | Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | An advance treatment directive is a document that specifies a person's future preferences for treatment, should he or she lose the mental ability to make treatment decisions (lose capacity). They have traditionally been used to stipulate treatment in ... |
| Date: | Feb 2008 |
| Title: | Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Over the last hundred years medical opinion as to whether people with a severe mental illness should stay in hospital for months and years versus a few weeks has changed. This has been helped by the advent of medication for some of these illnesses. Cons... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychosis is disturbance of a person's thinking that causes them to have false perceptions of the senses (hallucinations) and see the world in a different way from the majority (delusions). Psychosis can cause the sufferer to become very distressed. T... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Mother and baby units for schizophrenia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Post-partum psychosis is a consistent source of new episodes of severe mental illness and its worldwide prevalence has remained unchanged at 1 in 1000 live births over the past 150 years. For some women, admission to hospital is necessary. In the UK spe... |
| Date: | Nov 2006 |
| Title: | Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness |
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| 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 |
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