Long-stay patients in Danish psychiatric hospitals
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 9 (3), 551-566
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700032116
Abstract
Synopsis The numbers of long-stay patients in Danish psychiatric hospitals were studied, based on information from the Danish cumulative psychiatric register and from the census studies of patients in Danish psychiatric hospitals, performed at 5-year intervals since 1957. In 1977, 2079 (20%) of the in-patient population which had been admitted before 1957 were still in hospitals. This ‘old long-stay’ group has diminished exponentially, with an annual reduction of 7%. During the period 1972–6, the number of patients who, on any given day, had been in-patients or attending as day-patients for more than 1 but less than 2 years (the ‘new long-stay’) varied between 847 and 1089: an average of 20 per 100000 total population. The ratio of in-patients to day-patients was approximately 4:1.Keywords
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