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We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Randomized controlled trials in adults with severe mental illness indicate that, compared with standard care, intensive case management (ICM) improves retention in treatment and may reduce hospitalization but other positive effects of ICM are unclear.
Current approaches to stratify patients with psychiatric disorders into groups on the basis of violence risk are limited by inconsistency, variable accuracy, and unscalability. To address the need for a scalable and valid tool to assess violence risk in patients with schizophrenia spectrum or bipolar disorder, we describe the derivation of a score based on routinely collected factors and present findings from external validation......Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Although most individuals with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia are neither antisocial nor violent, the risk of committing a homicide for people with schizophrenia is higher than that for those in the general population.1 Thus, a paradox typifies many psychiatric conditions for which a specific disorder is associated with increased risk of violence, despite a low prevalence of violence among those with the disorder. Seena Fazel and colleagues'2 new study in The Lancet Psychiatry seeks to clarify this paradox by identifying low risk of committing violent crime among a national cohort of 75 158 Swedish individuals......Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at risk of dying many years earlier than the general population. Providing an effective, cost-efficient healthcare service requires a holistic approach, and improving the physical health of people with SMI should be integral to all healthcare roles. It is important for nurses to identify and understand the barriers that people with SMI may experience when accessing physical healthcare.
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