Kullgren G, Jacobsson L, Lynöe N, Kohn R, Levav I. Practices and attitudes among Swedish
psychiatrists regarding the ethics of compulsory treatment. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1996: 93 …

The courts' assumption that patients' refusals of treatment are based on autonomous
decision making was evaluated by examining the opinions of 24 involuntarily medicated …

In the field of mental health law, we entrust decisions with consequences of the utmost
gravity–decisions about compulsory medical treatment and the loss of liberty–to doctors and …

• Critics of the dangerousness standard for civil commitment contend that there is no
professional standard for the evaluation of dangerousness. We used Three Ratings of …

OBJECTIVE: Clinicians' decision making about involuntary commitment was examined, with
a focus on the effects of patient and clinician characteristics and bed availability on …

• Proponents of return to a" need for treatment" standard for civil commitment contend that
the current dangerousness standard forces psychiatrists to neglect severely ill patients in …

The reliability and validity of the application of legal criteria for commitment were
investigated as part of a larger study. Evaluations of 411 patients by 96 different clinicians …

Describes the sociodemographic, clinical, and criminal characteristics of psychiatric patients
who were involuntarily hospitalized, in comparison to a group of voluntary psychiatric …

The goal of this study is to understand how different admission statuses of varying degrees
of restrictiveness (informal, voluntary, emergency admission, and involuntary admission on …

Aim: To investigate the baseline and follow-up characteristics of a group of alcohol-
dependent patients being treated under civil commitment. Methods: This study involved a …