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Nipawin - November 2, 2000 | |
relevant research |
Our incompetent reductionist health researchers are again telling us what is the truth with the |
current hospitalization of psychiatric patients, and at the same time they want to have more | |
research money to either confirm or reject their previously found truths. One thing I want to | |
make clear before we laugh at this additional two year study by the Health Services Utilization | |
and Research Commission (HSURC), is that you cannot have a relevant research when the | |
health care system experiences a lack of acute beds, a lack of long term beds, a lack of | |
medical specialists, a lack of doctors, a lack of nurses, a lack of proper equipment, a lack of | |
health care workers in general, a lack of home care programs, a lack of administrative | |
accountability, a lack of everything else. | |
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short hospital stays |
So, within this health care gambling casino, our HSURC's researchers have concluded |
another useless study stating that more than 80 per cent of the days patients spend in | |
hospital psychiatric wards are unnecessary(1). Laurie Thompson, who heads the big brains | |
at HSURC, has stated "the study showed that many mental health patients can be | |
effectively treated with short hospital stays followed up by community services." | |
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follow-up study |
Thompson says the findings are enough to prompt his organization of big brains to call for |
new guidelines of how mental health patients are treated in Saskatchewan. And HSURC | |
chair Liz Harrison has added she "hopes to do a follow-up study to examine the reasons | |
for the unnecessary hospital stays." | |
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these guidelines |
To appreciate the rooted incompetence of these HSURC's researchers, Yorkton psychiatrist |
Dr. Mirchand has stated that the definition of appropriate use of beds 'is OK if you are a | |
researcher, but not if you are on the front lines. Unless you order me not to admit, I'm | |
not going to follow any of these guidelines(2)." | |
I wonder if this research commission reinforces its state of psychiatric organizational | |
dementia with the Carver's Policy Governance® model(3). | |
-----------References/Endnotes: | |
List of articles by Mario deSantis | |
Study casts doubt on mental health treatment in Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatchewan, October 31, 2000 | |
Psychiatric patients 'taking up spaces' in acute care, by Jason Warick, October 31, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
A first impression of the Carver's Policy Governance® Model, by Mario deSantis, September 18, 2000 |