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Table 1 Exclusion and inclusion in the study

From: A comparison of decisions to discharge committed psychiatric patients between treating physicians and district psychiatric committees: an outcome study

Step

Committee (DPC)

Doctors (TP)

Number of records received from Ministry of Health

972

5788

Number of records excluded by age criteria

23

0

Number of records excluded by diagnosis

49

907

Number of records excluded by procedural limitations

422

644

Number of records excluded by mortality

7

72

Final number of records included

471

4165

Final number of patients included

443

3506