Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on involuntary and urgent inpatient admissions for psychiatric disorders in a German-wide hospital network

Autor: Andreas Broocks, Katarina Stengler, Konstantinos Mouratis, Andreas Bollmann, Andreas Meier-Hellmann, Ralf Kuhlen, Sven Hohenstein, Georg Schomerus, Gerhard Hindricks, Jonathan Mathias Fasshauer
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Psychiatric Research
ISSN: 0022-3956
Popis: The impact of COVID-19 on urgent and involuntary inpatient admissions, as well as coercive measures, has not been assessed so far. A retrospective study was performed analyzing claims data for inpatient psychiatric admissions between 2018 and 2020 (total n = 64,502) from a large German Hospital network. Whilst the total number of urgent admissions decreased in 2020 (12,383) as compared to 2019 (13,493) and 2018 (13,469), a significant increase in the percentage of urgent admissions was observed in 2020 (62.9%) as compared to 2019 (60.6%) and 2018 (59.7%). Compared to this study period, Odds ratio (OR) for proportion were 0.87 (0.84, 0.91) and 0.91 (0.87, 0.95) for 2018 and 2019, respectively (both p
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