Recent amendments to Queensland legislation make mental health presentations to hospital emergency departments more difficult to scrutinise

被引：7

作者：

Clough, Alan R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Evans, Angela ^{[3
]}

Grant, Kristy ^{[1
,2
]}

Graham, Veronica ^{[1
]}

Catterall, Janet ^{[4
]}

Lakeman, Richard ^{[5
]}

Gilroy, John ^{[6
]}

Pratt, Gregory ^{[7
]}

Petrucci, Joe ^{[8
]}

Stone, Richard ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] James Cook Univ, Coll Publ Hlth Med & Vet Sci, Cairns, Qld, Australia

[2] James Cook Univ, Australian Inst Trop Hlth & Med, Cairns, Qld, Australia

[3] Queensland Police Serv, Far Northern Reg, Cairns, Qld, Australia

[4] James Cook Univ Lib, Lib & Informat Serv, Cairns, Qld, Australia

[5] Southern Cross Univ, Fac Hlth, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia

[6] Univ Sydney, Fac Hlth Sci, Sydney, NSW, Australia

[7] QIMR Berghofer Med Res Inst, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

[8] QLD & NT Neami Natl Cairns, Cairns, Qld, Australia

[9] Cairns Hosp, Emergency Dept, Cairns & Hinterland Hosp & Hlth Serv, Cairns, Qld, Australia

来源：

EMERGENCY MEDICINE AUSTRALASIA | 2022年 / 34卷 / 01期

关键词：

emergency medical service; involuntary hospitalisation; involuntary treatment; jurisprudence; mental health;

D O I：

10.1111/1742-6723.13878

中图分类号：

R4 [临床医学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100602 ;

摘要：

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) and Queensland Ambulance Service may detain and transport persons experiencing major disturbances in their mental capacity to an ED for urgent care. Queensland's new mental health legislation (March 2017) makes this legal intervention difficult to scrutinise. For a large non-metropolitan region, QPS records for emergency examination orders (EEOs) and emergency examination authorities (EEAs) were compared with annual reports of Queensland's Director of Mental Health and Chief Psychiatrist. From 2009-2010 to March 2017, QPS-registered EEOs totalled 12 903 while annual reports attributed 9441 to QPS (27% fewer). From March 2017 to 2019-2020, QPS-registered EEAs totalled 6887. Annual reports declared 1803 EEAs in total for this period, without distinguishing those registered by QPS from the Queensland Ambulance Service. Past year proportions of EEOs, however, indicate perhaps similar to 1100 originated with QPS (84% fewer). Information crucial for considered emergency mental healthcare responses for thousands of people is no longer readily available.

引用

页码：130 / 133

页数：4

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