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Descriptor English: Involuntary Commitment
Descriptor Spanish: Internamiento Involuntario
Descriptor internamiento involuntario
Entry term(s) confinamiento involuntario
ingreso involuntario
ingresos involuntarios
Scope note: Aislamiento o internamiento involuntarios de una persona después de su negativa a tomar medicación o del fracaso de esta, a completar el tratamiento o a cumplir las medidas preventivas de control de las infecciones, o de comportamientos que pueden poner o ponen en peligro a la propia persona o a terceros.
Descriptor Portuguese: Internação Involuntária
Descriptor French: Internement contraint
Entry term(s): Commitment, Involuntary
Commitments, Involuntary
Involuntary Commitments
Tree number(s): E02.760.415.640
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000079243
Scope note: Non-voluntary institutionalization or isolation following refusal or failure to take medication, to complete treatment, or to adhere to infection control precautions, or behavior that may or does endanger self or others.
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
ST standards
Public MeSH Note: 2020; see COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL 1977-2019
History Note: 2020; use COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL 1977-2019
DeCS ID: 59295
Unique ID: D000079243
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Date Established: 2020/01/01
Date of Entry: 2019/07/08
Revision Date: 2018/10/12
Involuntary Commitment - Preferred
Concept UI M0004858
Scope note Non-voluntary institutionalization or isolation following refusal or failure to take medication, to complete treatment, or to adhere to infection control precautions, or behavior that may or does endanger self or others.
Preferred term Involuntary Commitment
Entry term(s) Commitment, Involuntary
Commitments, Involuntary
Involuntary Commitments



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