@article{ref1,
title="How does a general hospital psychiatric unit deal with violent patients? The border between community psychiatric services and forensic psychiatric hospitals",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="2003",
author="Kieser, Christian and Fähndrich, Erdmann",
volume="30",
number="3",
pages="127-132",
abstract="ISSUE: In psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinics that are responsible for supplying care for a region, how often are patients transferred to forensic psychiatric hospitals? Is there a tendency to &quot;send off&quot; aggressive or threatening patients as quickly as possible? METHOD: In the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinic responsible for the Berlin's Neukölln district, for one year (2000) all patients who committed a severe criminal offence immediately before or during their in-patient treatment were registered for observation in 2000. The steps of investigation and further legal consequences were recorded. RESULTS: During the period of observation, 0.1 percent of the patients were transferred from the clinic to a forensic psychiatric hospital. Weeks or months after their regular release, 0.4 percent of the patients were committed to a forensic department. The court ordered an ambulant psychiatric evaluation for 0.5 percent of the patients. CONCLUSION: Only a few patients were transferred to forensic psychiatric hospitals. A tendency to &quot;send off&quot; aggressive patients as soon as possible, thus abusing forensic psychiatry, was not found in this study.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="10.1055/s-2003-38604",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2003-38604"
}