Length of Stay, Leave and Re-Offending by Patients from a Queensland Security Patients Hospital

摘要: Objective: The release of patients from a security hospital has been the subject public controversy. present study uses empirical data to examine length stay, leave, and re-offending hospital.Methods: Survival analysis was used factors that may be predictive stay time under restriction, as well first overnight leave. Data on were obtained variety sources compared with seriousness index offences.Results: Consistent international research, more serious offences had longer hospitalisations. Patients also hospitalised for periods before leave granted. Compared studies, in lower range.Conclusions: Despite concerns raised media regarding patient ‘dangerousness’, spent granting likely long...