TY - JOUR AU - Nyttingnes, Olav AU - Ruud, Torleif PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/18 TI - When patients decide the admission – a four year pre-post study of changes in admissions and inpatient days following patient controlled admission contracts JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 229 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - Mental health professionals usually decide patients’ access to inpatient care to ensure the rational and fair distribution of care based on need and prognosis. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effects of increasing patients’ influence on admission by enabling patients to initiate brief inpatient stays of up to five days at a community mental health center. Patients can initiate admission according to their own discretion, outside the existing referral and gatekeeping system. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05101-z DO - 10.1186/s12913-020-05101-z ID - Nyttingnes2020 ER -