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. 1991 Jan;26(1):47-51.
doi: 10.1007/BF00783581.

Routes to psychiatric inpatient care in an Inner London Borough

P Moodley  1 , R E Perkins
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Routes to psychiatric inpatient care in an Inner London Borough

P Moodley et al. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1991 Jan.

Abstract

A study is reported in which pathways to psychiatric inpatient care were investigated in an Inner London Borough. Data were collected on a series of 52 consecutive admissions of adults to the psychiatric wards serving the area. The most striking feature of the results was the variety of routes taken to inpatient care, combined with a high level of police involvement (23.1% of admissions) and low level of referral from General Practitioners (15.4% of admissions). Significant age differences in routes to care were found: those under 30 years were usually brought to hospital by the police or presented directly to psychiatric emergency services; those over 30 typically came via medical/surgical hospital services, domiciliary psychiatric services or psychiatric outpatients. There were no differences in the routes taken by Afro-Caribbean and white people or by men and women. Higher proportions of Afro-Caribbeans received a diagnosis of schizophrenia, considered themselves to have nothing wrong with them and were compulsorily detained. Higher proportions of whites were diagnosed as depressed and considered themselves to have physical problems rather than psychiatric ones. However, results clearly indicated that it was ethnic status rather than diagnostic category that accounted for the higher rates of compulsory detention of Afro-Caribbean people. The implications of the findings for service development and delivery are considered.

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