The therapeutic discharge: An approach to dealing with deceptive patients

Patients with factitious disorder or malingering behaviors pose particular problems in acute care settings. We sought to describe a manner to effectively discharge these patients and keep further harm, iatrogenic or otherwise, from being inflicted.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: John B. Taylor, Scott R. Beach, Nicholas Kontos Source Type: research