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Electronic alert system for mentally handicapped adults incapable of consent — civilised technology or civil rights abuse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brian Male ,
Anwar El Komy  and
Colin Clark
Colin Clark
Affiliation:
Barnfield House, St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4SE
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It is the intention of the Mental Handicap Services of the Chichester Health Authority to implement a discrete electronic alert system for some of the patients who are incapable of consent. An activator, similar to the bar code in a library book, or tag in a clothing store will be kept in a pocket of the patient's clothing. When a patient who carries the activator walks through a magnetic field at the door of the unit, it will trigger a bleep held by the nurse in charge to inform him/her that this particular patient is leaving.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 10 , October 1991 , pp. 605 - 606
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991
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