Monitoring of patients on a community treatment order

Monitoring of patients on a community treatment order

Abstract

Correspondence Monitoring of patients on a community treatment order Kannan Kallapiran, Hunter New England Mental Health, and Anoop Sankaranarayanan, Hunter Valley Mental Health Service, Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia: This would not only enable better and more comprehensive scientific reviews of effectiveness of CTOs, but is also a necessary ethical safeguard for patients maintained on CTOs. References 1. Ingram G, Muirhead D, Harvey C. Effectiveness of community treatment orders for treatment of schizophrenia with oral or depot antipsychotic medication: changes in problem behaviours and socialfunctioning. Aust NZ J Psychiatry 2009; 43:1077–1083. 2. Vaughan K, McConaghy N, Wolf C, Myhr C, Black T. Community treatment orders: relationship to clinical care, medication compliance, behavioural disturbance and readmission. Aust NZ J Psychiatry 2000; 34:801–808. 3. Steadman HJ, Gounis K, Dennis D, Hopper K, Roche B, Swartz M, Robbins PC. Assessing the New York City involuntary outpatient commitment pilot program. Psychiatr Serv 2001; 52:330–336. 4. Swartz MS, Swanson JW, Wagner HR, Burns BJ, Hiday VA, Borum R. Can involuntary outpatient commitment reduce hospital recidivism? Findings from a randomized trial with severely mentally ill individuals. Am J Psychiatry 1999; 156:1968–1975. 5. Kisely SR, Campbell