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Table 6 Success rates (%) as a function of length of index hospitalization (days)

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

Length of index hospitalization

Doctors’ success rate (N)

Committees’ success rate (N)

p Value

Ultrashort hospitalization <8 days

73.4%

(533)

67.7%

(164)

χ2 = 2.2

p= .138

Short hospitalization 8–30 Days

73.5%

(1006)

63.5%

(129)

χ2 = 8.8

p = .003

Long hospitalization>30 days

75.6%

(1565)

71.2%

(74)

χ2 = 1.039

p= .308

  1. Significance (p <0.005) are in bold