Thursday, October 09, 2003

Mandated treatment in the community for people with mental disorders
Health Affairs article (in Adobe Acrobat format) - "The following paper explores the context within which coerced community treatment has arisen and seeks to break the impasse between advocates and opponents by placing mandated treatment within the larger conceptual framework of health care quality. The authors are all part of the Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, a MacArthur Foundation funded project designed to evaluate programs in which mentally ill patients are instructed by the courts to get community-based treatment."