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| Neil J PrestonSummaryAffiliation: Western Australia Country: Australia Publications
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The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales: validating factorial structure and invariance across two health servicesN J Preston
Mental Health Services, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:512-9; discussion 520-1. 2000..This paper attempts to investigate whether similar health services rate the HoNOS with equivalent psychometric calibration...- A statewide evaluation system for early psychosisNeil J Preston
Early Intervention Psychosis Program, Directorate of Mental Health, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, PO Box 480, Fremantle, Western Australia 6959, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:421-8. 2003..We describe patients in terms of symptoms, substance use, social functioning and family burden, and examine the effectiveness of treatment programmes... - Gender differences in premorbid adjustment of patients with first episode psychosisNeil J Preston
Mental Health Directorate, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, P O Box 480, WA 6160, Australia
Schizophr Res 55:285-90. 2002.... - Assessing the outcome of compulsory psychiatric treatment in the community: epidemiological study in Western AustraliaNeil J Preston
Mental Health Directorate, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, PO Box 480 Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia
BMJ 324:1244. 2002..To examine whether community treatment orders for psychiatric patients reduce subsequent use of health services in comparison with control patients not placed on an order... - Predicting community survival in early psychosis and schizophrenia populations after receiving intensive case managementN J Preston
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:122-8. 2000..The study was undertaken to assess whether social and living skills functioning predicted community survival between subjects with chronic schizophrenia and early episode psychosis after receiving assertive community-based case management... - Establishing the efficacy and cost effectiveness of community intensive case management of long-term mentally ill: a matched control group studyN J Preston
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 34:114-21. 2000..Costings were measured to observe whether the increase in providing intensive outpatient contacts would be offset by savings in reduced inpatient service utilisation... - What determines compulsory community treatment? A logistic regression analysis using linked mental health and offender databasesJianguo Xiao
Mental Health Directorate, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:613-8. 2004..We need further research to establish the relative contribution of patient characteristics, legislation and service setting toward the use and outcome of compulsory community treatment... - The brief symptom inventory and the positive and negative syndrome scale: discriminate validity between a self-reported and observational measure of psychopathologyNeil J Preston
Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Fremantle, WA, Australia
Compr Psychiatry 44:220-6. 2003..Techniques such as multitrait multimethod are discussed as ways of overcoming these concerns... - A group intervention which assists patients with dual diagnosis reduce their drug use: a randomized controlled trialW James
Alma Street Centre, Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia
Psychol Med 34:983-90. 2004..This has important implications for clinicians who wish to improve the long-term outcome of their patients... - Randomized and non-randomized evidence for the effect of compulsory community and involuntary out-patient treatment on health service use: systematic review and meta-analysisStephen Kisely
Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Canada
Psychol Med 37:3-14. 2007..Other study methods may clarify their effectiveness. We reviewed RCT and non-RCT evidence for the effect of compulsory community treatment on hospital admissions, bed-days, compliance and out-patient contacts... - A comparison of health service use in two jurisdictions with and without compulsory community treatmentStephen Kisely
Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University and Health Outcomes Unit, Capital District Health Authority, Halifax, Canada
Psychol Med 35:1357-67. 2005..However, we do not know if it is the intensity of treatment, or its compulsory nature, that effects outcome... - Can epidemiological studies assist in the evaluation of community treatment orders? - The experience of Western Australia and Nova ScotiaStephen Kisely
Departments of Community Health and Epidemiology and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Int J Law Psychiatry 29:507-15. 2006..Outpatient contacts were significantly greater for the CTO group. However, we do not know whether the intensity of treatment, or its compulsory nature, effected outcome... - Impact of compulsory community treatment on admission rates: survival analysis using linked mental health and offender databasesStephen R Kisely
University Department of Psychiatry at Fremantle Hospital, University of Western Australia, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 184:432-8. 2004..There is controversy as to whether compulsory community treatment for psychiatric patients reduces hospital admission rates... - The effect of recalling paracetamol on hospital admissions for poisoning in Western AustraliaStephen R Kisely
University Department of Psychiatry at Fremantle Hospital, University of Western Australia, Fremantle, WA
Med J Aust 178:72-4. 2003..To assess the effect of two recalls of paracetamol products on rates of intentional and unintentional overdoses of paracetamol in all age groups, as well as any effect on poisoning by other agents... - Correlates of dysmorphic concern in people seeking cosmetic enhancementDavid J Castle
Mental Health Research Institute and Universiity of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:439-44. 2004..To determine the clinical correlates of dysmorphic concern in persons seeking cosmetic enhancement from cosmetic physicians...