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September 2012 - January 2019
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Background: The use of coercive measures is an increasingly debated aspect of psychiatric treatment. Considering the multitude of negative effects, patients, clinicians, and ethicists alike have called for a more cautious application of coercion. It therefore remains important to investigate which organizational characteristics have the potential t...
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Balancing the economic costs related to mental illness is a pressing matter globally. Scarce monetary and staff resources impose an ongoing challenge. Therapeutic leaves (TL) are an established clinical tool in psychiatry possibly improving therapy outcome and potentially lowering direct mental healthcare costs in the long term. We thus exam...
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Article 115 of the Swiss Penal Code (StGB) permits physician-assisted dying (PAD), provided it is not performed for “selfish reasons,” and thus, occupies a special role in international comparison. However, the Swiss federal law does not regulate who exactly is entitled to access PAD, and there is no universal agreement in the concerned...
Aims: Interventions to decrease readmissions in psychiatric patients are urgently needed. In Switzerland therapeutic leave (TL) composes a cornerstone of inpatient treatment. TL is a planned time-limited absence from the inpatient ward giving patients the opportunity to test their resilience in their usual environment. Evidence of its applicability...
Zwangsmassnahmen werden in der Psychiatrie angewandt, wenn es darum geht, die Sicherheit für Patienten sowie für das Personal und die Bevölkerung zu fördern und um aus psychiatrischer Sicht die notwendige Behandlung bei urteilsunfähigen Patienten durchführen zu können. Die Massnahmen können für Betroffene jedoch traumatisierend und stigmatisierend...
Die Universitären Psychiatrischen Kliniken Basel (UPK) sind bestrebt, die Anzahl der Zwangsmassnahmen möglichst gering zu halten und setzen alles auf ihre Reduktion. Eine effektive Deeskalationsstrategie ist dafür zentral (1). Der Begriff Deeskalation ist nicht eindeutig definiert (2). Wichtig scheinen aber ein Bewusstsein für informellen Zwang, ei...
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I want to apply DEA to measure the efficiency of different DMUs regarding an undesirable output that should be reduced instead of increased. Meaning DMUs with minimal output should be classified as efficient instead of the ones with maximum output.
I have two input variables and that one output variable and I've already decided to use an output-oriented model. How do I transform the output variables correctly?
