When patients decide the admission – a four year pre-post study of changes in admissions and inpatient days following patient controlled admission contracts

Table 2 Admissions and inpatient days, count and mean per patient

	Before PCA contract (24 months)			After PCA contract (24 months)			Difference in days
Type of ward	Admissions^a	Inpatient days	Mean days / patient (SD)	Admissions^a	Inpatient days	Mean days / patient (SD)	Days	P-value^b
Acute ward	63	815	14.3 (23.3)	36	218	3.8 (10.0)	597	< .001
High-security ward	1	527	9.2 (37.0)	1	198	3.5 (21.2)	329	.225
Addiction ward	2	33	0.6 (3.3)	1	7	0.1 (0.9)	26	.285
CMHC ward (PCA excluded)	137	5797	101.7 (81.1)	54	2142	37.6 (46.1)	2226^d	< .001
PCA at CMHC ward	–	–		406	1429	25.1 (24.4)	2226^d	< .001
PCA request without admission	–	–		70	–
Involuntary care	17^c	435	7.6 (28.3)	14^c	321	5.6 (26.6)	114	.397
Sum of admissions and days	203	7172	125.8 (98.2)	498	3994	70.1 (62.8)	3178	< .001

^a For admissions with internal transfers between wards, only the initial ward is counted, while the days are allocated to the ward type where the patient stayed
^bP-values from Wilcoxon signed-rank tests
^c The number of admissions that included days under involuntary care
^d Difference between ordinary CMHC days before PCA contract and combined CMHC and PCA days after contract

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