Together, they analyzed mainstream news accounts of harm towards patients of inpatient psychiatric care in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Deinstitutionalization: Shared history and consequencesIn the early 20th century, psychiatric consumers in both the U.S. and U.K. were often warehoused in long-term psychiatric hospitals. Even in countries with radically different approaches to financing their healthcare systems, we see similar media accounts of harm specifically when it comes to inpatient psychiatric care. We need a comprehensive surveillance system that could capture information on physical and non-physical harms within inpatient psychiatric facilities. ConclusionCounterproductively, experiencing inpatient psychiatric care could be hurtful and even cost one’s life.

Source: Huffington Post October 19, 2016 21:40 UTC