The use of community treatment orders in competent patients is not justified.
editorial · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.116.193920.
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Abstract
Empirical evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders (CTOs) is at best mixed. We examine CTOs through the prism of human rights and discrimination, bearing the evidence in mind, and argue that a necessary condition for their use is that a person lacks decision-making capacity.
Medical subject headings
- Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
- Community Mental Health Services
- Mental Competency
- Mental Disorders