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State Laws on Emergency Holds: Updated Data Set

Published Online:28 Apr 2016https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.670505

TO THE EDITOR: This issue of Psychiatric Services includes an article titled “State Laws on Emergency Holds for Mental Health Stabilization” (1), which provides data on emergency hold laws effective as of November 1, 2014.

Since the above article was published online earlier this year, we have updated the data set to reflect emergency hold laws effective as of February 1, 2016. The legal longitudinal data are freely available for use and review on the LawAtlas site (lawatlas.org/query?dataset=short-term-civil-commitment).

Reference

1 Hedman LC, Petrila J, Fisher WH, et al.: State laws on emergency holds for mental health stabilization. Psychiatric Services 67:529–535, 2016Link, Google Scholar