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PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT IN A DELIMITED POPULATION – WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO OUTPATIENTS
Author(s) -
Kastrup M.,
Nakane Y.,
Dupont A.,
Bille M.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb00057.x
Subject(s) - medicine , psychiatric hospital , psychiatry , population , outpatient clinic , environmental health
The present investigation analyses the psychiatric service available to and utilized by a population in a geographically delimited area, namely the Randers area with a population of 108,928. During the period 1970–74, the average yearly rate of patients admitted to the three psychiatric institutions covering this area was per 1,000: 7.9 males and 9.1 females. During 1970–71, 1.2 males and 1.8 females per 1,000 were treated as outpatients in a psychiatric clinic affiliated to a psychiatric hospital, and a psychiatric outpatient clinic in a general hospital discharged 4.1 males and 7.7 females per 1,000. It seems probable that despite outpatient treatment the number of admissions increases slightly rather than decreases, and consequently, outpatient treatment cannot replace psychiatric admission.