The Utility of Outpatient Commitment: II. Mortality Risk and Protecting Health, Safety, and Quality of Life.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study assessed the contribution of a form of outpatient commitment-community treatment orders (CTOs)-to mortality risk and quality of life of patients with severe mental illness.

Methods

Data (2000--2012) were obtained from the Australian National Death Index, Victoria Department of Health, Victoria police records, and National Outcomes and CaseMix Collection quality-of-life records for patients in the Victorian Psychiatric Case Register/RAPID with a history of psychiatric hospitalization: CTO cohort, N=11,424; non-CTO cohort, N=16,161. The contribution of CTOs to mortality risk associated with CTO facilitation of access to general medical care and prevention of criminal involvement was assessed with logistic regression models. Cohort differences in quality of

SUBMITTER: Segal SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213026 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature