What is it about?
It is a difficult decision that many GPs have to make: should they commit a person or not? In this study, we interview a sample of Norwegian doctors about their experiences.
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Why is it important?
More than half of the doctors had felt pressured/adviced to refer the patient to hospital and about half had felt pressured/adviced to commit (ie refer the patient against his/her will).
Perspectives
Patients’ families and the Police may play an important role in many involuntary admissions.
Professor Rolf Wynn
UiT Norges arktiske universitet
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This page is a summary of: Involuntary psychiatric admission: Characteristics of the referring doctors and the doctors’ experiences of being pressured, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, December 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2014.987165.
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