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Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission.
Davoren, Mary Byrne, Orla O'Connell, Paul O'Neill, Helen O'Reilly, Ken Kennedy, Harry G
Davoren, Mary
Byrne, Orla
O'Connell, Paul
O'Neill, Helen
O'Reilly, Ken
Kennedy, Harry G
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Date
2015
Date Submitted
Keywords
FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
LENGTH OF STAY
PSYCHIATRY
LENGTH OF STAY
PSYCHIATRY
Other Subjects
THERAPEUTIC SECURITY
Subject Mesh
Adult
Cross-Sectional Studies
England
Female
Forensic Psychiatry
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Length of Stay
Male
Patient Admission
Patient Discharge
Pilot Projects
Prospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Triage
Violence
Cross-Sectional Studies
England
Female
Forensic Psychiatry
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Length of Stay
Male
Patient Admission
Patient Discharge
Pilot Projects
Prospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Triage
Violence
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Start Date
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Abstract
Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at time of admission would be beneficial. The DUNDRUM-1 triage security scale and DUNDRUM-2 triage urgency scale are designed to assess need for therapeutic security and urgency of that need while the HCR-20 predicts risk of violence. We hypothesized that items on the DUNDRUM-1 and DUNDRUM-2 scales, rated at the time of pre-admission assessment, would predict length of stay in a medium secure forensic hospital setting.
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en
ISSN
1471-244X
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DOI
10.1186/s12888-015-0686-4
PMID
26597630