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Informal patients in secure wards: restriction of movement or deprivation of liberty?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2006
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Those requiring inpatient psychiatric care should be managed in the lowest level of security necessary in a ward close to their home area. The presence of informal (voluntary) patients on secure wards appears incompatible with this principle. Can such situations be justified?
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