TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychiatric bed numbers in Australia
AU - Allison, Stephen
AU - Bastiampillai, Tarun
AU - Copolov, David
AU - Castle, David
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Luke S Rains and colleagues1 address an important issue of the large and unexplained differences in involuntary hospitalisation rates among 22 countries across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The authors make an important contribution to the literature with a careful examination of the effect of local legal codes on involuntary hospitalisation rates. However, the study contains a data point that misleads readers about the Australian mental health system and casts some doubt on the quality of the data underpinning an important finding in the study: a positive association between greater numbers of psychiatric beds and higher involuntary hospitalisation rates.
AB - Luke S Rains and colleagues1 address an important issue of the large and unexplained differences in involuntary hospitalisation rates among 22 countries across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The authors make an important contribution to the literature with a careful examination of the effect of local legal codes on involuntary hospitalisation rates. However, the study contains a data point that misleads readers about the Australian mental health system and casts some doubt on the quality of the data underpinning an important finding in the study: a positive association between greater numbers of psychiatric beds and higher involuntary hospitalisation rates.
KW - Involuntary Treatment
KW - Science & Technology
KW - Australia
KW - Psychiatric Department, Hospital
KW - Psychiatry
KW - Life Sciences & Biomedicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072245265&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30208-1
DO - 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30208-1
M3 - Letter
C2 - 31544765
AN - SCOPUS:85072245265
SN - 2215-0366
VL - 6
SP - e21
JO - The Lancet Psychiatry
JF - The Lancet Psychiatry
IS - 10
ER -