PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Patterson, RF
AU  - Wise, BF
TI  - The development of internal forensic review boards in the management of hospitalized insanity acquittees
DP  - 1998 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 661--664
VI  - 26
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/26/4/661.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/26/4/661.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1998 Dec 01; 26
AB  - When working well, internal forensic review boards generally: (1) have the support of the courts and communities; (2) consider and review effective individual treatment and public safety; (3) permit direct care treatment teams the opportunity to advocate for the patient; (4) focus clinical and security considerations on the individual patient rather than dwelling on system issues; (5) identify resource needs for inpatient and community care; (6) provide a foundation for monitoring patient adjustment to various levels of stressors, both in the hospital and the community; (7) provide a mechanism for timely crisis intervention for individual patients; (8) afford administrative and clinical staff a mechanism for peer review; (9) are cost effective compared with external review boards; (10) provide data and a tracking mechanism for quality improvement for the forensic system of care; and (11) provide an education/training function for direct care and professional staff.