Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission.

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Authors
Davoren, Mary
Byrne, Orla
O'Connell, Paul
O'Neill, Helen
O'Reilly, Ken
Kennedy, Harry G
Issue Date
2015
Keywords
FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
LENGTH OF STAY
PSYCHIATRY
Local subject classification
THERAPEUTIC SECURITY
MeSH
Adult
Cross-Sectional Studies
England
Female
Forensic Psychiatry
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Humans
Length of Stay
Male
Patient Admission

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Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission. 2015, 15:301 BMC Psychiatry
Publisher
Springer
Journal
BMC psychiatry
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/619117
DOI
10.1186/s12888-015-0686-4
PubMed ID
26597630
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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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Article
Language
en
ISSN
1471-244X
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