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M R Munetz

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PubMed1981

Modernization of a mental health act II: outcome effects.

The authors studied the effect of Pennsylvania's 1976 Mental Health Procedures Act on the hospital course of involuntarily detained patients. They found that more court hearings to extend commitment were requested, held and approved under the modern law. There was a decrease in the number of schizophrenic patients who signed in voluntarily. They found no change in the mean length of hospitalization under the new law whether patients were voluntary or involuntary. They found that patients did not often sign in voluntarily or go to court within the legally prescribed periods.

Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders↗
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Akathisia: clinical phenomenology and relationship to tardive dyskinesia.

Akathisia and tardive dyskinesia (TD) are disorders of movement that are often associated with administration of antipsychotic medication. We surveyed 196 outpatients in a schizophrenia clinic, all receiving antipsychotic medication, for the presence of these disorders. Clinical global ratings of akathisia were reliable. Akathisia was found in 36% of patients, and TD in 23.5%. Akathisia was disproportionately common in patients receiving high-potency neuroleptics. The data affirmed recent revisions in the dose-equivalence formulas used with fluphenazine decanoate. Akathisia and TD did not seem to be interrelated. Because akathisia is common and often limits medication dose and contributes to noncompliance, psychiatrists must take this into account when prescribing antipsychotic medication.

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