General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 94-98 , January 2010

Outcomes following appeal and reversal of civil commitment

  • Jay H. Moss, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M4N 3M5. Tel.: +1 416 480 4693; fax: +1 416 488 5318.
    • ,
  • Donald A. Redelmeier, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario

Received 12 May 2009 ,Accepted 16 October 2009.

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☆ Drs. Moss and Redelmeier report no competing interests.

PII: S0163-8343(09)00223-0

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.10.004

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 94-98 , January 2010

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