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Judicial discharge of involuntary patients
G B Leong1, J A Silva, C A Leong
1Department of Psychiatry and the Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
The Psychiatric Quarterly
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Involuntarily hospitalized patients oftentimes request judicial review of their commitments. Many psychiatrists believe that such judicial review results in the discharge of too many of these patients. We attempted to assess this hypothesis as well as identify which patients receive judicial discharge.