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Brief user-controlled admission (BUCA) in psychiatric care

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Australasian Psychiatry

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Abstract

Australasian Psychiatry, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 142-146, April 2026.
Brief User-Controlled Admission (BUCA) refers to a set of crisis interventions in which the traditional gatekeeping role of the physician is bypassed, allowing service users to independently decide when to access short-term inpatient care through a pre-...