Psychiatric Disposition of Patients Brought in by Crisis Intervention Team Police Officers

摘要: Background: As part of an effort to improve police interactions with mentally ill citizens, and mental health care delivery subjects in acute distress, the University Louisville, conjunction Louisville Metro Police, established crisis intervention team (CIT). CIT is composed uniformed officers who receive extensive training psychiatric issues are preferentially called investigate calls that may involve a individual. Methods: In determine characteristics individuals brought emergency service (EPS) by officers, comparative (CIT vs. inquest warrant [MIW, citizen-initiated court order bring someone for evaluation because concerns regarding dangerousness] vs non-CIT/non-MIW), descriptive was performed. Results: With exception higher rate schizophrenic (43.0% 22.1, non-CIT, P=.002), demographics, diagnosis, disposition CIT-referred were not different any way from non-CIT patients. Subjects referred on MIWs more likely be admitted hospital than non-MIW patients (71.6 34.8, P <.0001), but hospitalization rates self-referred (20.7 33.3, ns). Conclusions: appear do good job at identifying need care.