TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - The quality of psychiatric management of youth who deliberately self-poison: A medical records audit in three university teaching hospitals
JO  - Archives of suicide research
A1  - Dudley, M.
A1  - Nirur, M.
SP  - 155
EP  - 165
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1381-1118
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811110208951173
ID  - ref1
ER  -