The utility of outpatient commitment: acute medical care access and protecting health.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:This study considers whether, in an easy access single-payer health care system, patients placed on outpatient commitment-community treatment orders (CTOs) in Victoria Australia-are more likely to access acute medical care addressing physical illness than voluntary patients with and without severe mental illness. METHOD:For years 2000 to 2010, the study compared acute medical care access of 27,585  severely mentally ill psychiatrically hospitalized patients (11,424 with and 16,161 without CTO exposure) and 12,229 never psychiatrically hospitalized outpatients (individuals with less morbidity risk as they were not considered to have severe mental illness). Logistic regression was used to determine the influence of the CTO on the likelihood of receiving a diagnosis of physical ill

SUBMITTER: Segal SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7336898 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature