Along with the advances in civil rights protections for psychiatric patients since the 1970s, so-
called voluntary inpatient psychiatric admissions have become common. In most US states …

The proliferation of legal initiatives and judicial decisions concerning the rights of psychiatric
patients has led to an increasing formalization of the relationship between the mental …

Reviews the relevant issues and draws conclusions about how best to handle patients who
agree to voluntary admission for whom there is a question about their capacity to consent to …

OBJECTIVE: In the wake of the US Supreme Court's 1990 decision in Zinermon v. Burch,
renewed attention has been given to capacities patients must have to be considered …

Throughout the United States, mentally ill persons are confined against their will in
psychiatric hospitals as a result of being accused of dangerous behavior. Some are …

This study examines the admission of emergency certified patients to Chicago's state mental
hospitals and the process by which patients decide to sign a voluntary admission form …

Background Medically hospitalized patients who lack decisional capacity may request,
demand, or attempt to leave the hospital despite grave risk to themselves. The treating …

Patients initially admitted to a state hospital under an emergency commitment procedure
were studied to identify the variables associated with their later change to voluntary status …

Treatment Refusal Procedures and Service Utilization: A Comparison of Involuntarily
Hospitalized Populations Page 1 Treatment Refusal Procedures and Service Utilization: A …

Little has been written about the issue of involuntary hospitalization in consultation-liaison
psychiatry. Nevertheless, patients frequently seen in medical and surgical settings may be …