@article{ref1,
title="The quality of psychiatric management of youth who deliberately self-poison: A medical records audit in three university teaching hospitals",
journal="Archives of suicide research",
year="2002",
author="Dudley, M. and Nirur, M.",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="155-165",
abstract="Descriptive, cross sectional, retrospective audit of hospital admission records was undertaken for youth (10-25 years) deliberate self poisoning (DSP) admissions, to ascertain (1) the frequency of psychiatric assessment (2) the quality of information collected, and (3) frequency and completeness of follow-up plans. Patients and setting: From 1,260 youth poisoning admissions to three university teaching hospitals in Sydney in 1991-1994, a stratified random sample of 167 cases was selected for medical record review. 16% of cases did not have a psychiatric assessment or this information was absent. Key mental health data in the rest (e.g., regarding self-harm history, life events, psychotropic drugs) were often missing. Follow-up plans, organised in 37%, were rarely systematically documented. Identified mental health patients were less likely to be coded as having deliberately self-harmed. Women were 1.82 times more likely to receive a psychiatric assessment than men. Compared to older patients, younger ones more often received mental health assessment (p = 0.02), and younger identified mental health patients more often received assertive follow-up plans (U = 187, p = 0.04). © 2002 International Academy for Suicide Research. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1381-1118",
doi="10.1080/13811110208951173",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811110208951173"
}