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Table 1 Socioeconomic data and level of compulsion according to ACPC* by entry for 23 patients who all were inpatients on a random chosen day in 2003 in the acute wards of a psychiatric hospital, (Standard deviation).

From: Duration of bed occupancy as calculated at a random chosen day in an acute care ward. Implications for the use of scarce resources in psychiatric care

 

Waiting for further treatment

Not waiting

 

(N = 11)

(N = 12)

Men

7

5

Women

4

7

Mean number of earlier referrals

3.6 (3.2)

5.7 (6.2)

Mean age

34.4 (10.4)

36.8 (8.6)

Psychotic illness

11 (47.8%)

8 (34.8%)

§according to Law:

  

§2-1 (voluntarily)

1

3

§3-6 (compulsory observation)

5

3

§3-3 (compulsion)

5

6

§as decided by senior psychiatrist within 24 hours after admission:

  

§2-1

1

3

§3-6

3

3

§3-3

7

6

  1. *) ACPC = The Norwegian Act on Compulsory Psychiatric Care of 1999.