New psychiatry research released
The latest issue of Australasian Psychiatry has been released and contains a number of highly interesting articles
pertaining to various aspects of the field. These include:
• Better laws for coercive psychiatric treatment: lessons from the Waterlow case
• Thoughts of suicide and stage of recovery in patients with schizophrenia in community mental health care
• Patterns of hypnotic medication use for sleep disturbance amongst hospital inpatients
• Characteristics of falls in inpatient psychiatric units
• Trends in the use of Emergency Examination Orders in Queensland since the implementation of the Mental Health
Intervention Project
Abstracts of articles in the August issue are available at:
Published by The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Australasian Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed
journal promoting lively and informed discussions about the art of psychiatry and issues at the forefront of psychiatry
practice.
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