Abstract
To determine the effectiveness of the Administrative Review as a tool in discerning which patients who refuse medication should be medicated involuntarily; define characteristics of voluntarily and involuntarily committed patients who refuse medication; and compare posttreatment status of patients who successfully refused medication with those who were administered medication involuntarily.
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Guillermo Urrutia, MD, is medical director, Mental Health Services Medical Center of LA at New Orleans and associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University School of Medicine.
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