A. Spengler, IMMEDIATE COMPULSORY CONFINEMENT OF PATIE NTS AS PRACTICED IN THE FEDERAL-REPUBLIC-OF-GERMANY DURING 1991-1992 - 1ST RESULTS, Psychiatrische Praxis, 21(3), 1994, pp. 118-120
The rates of compulsory admission and detention for 1991-1992 were pro
vided by 32 German psychiatric hospitals and departments. Very low rat
es were found in the eastern states and wide variation in rate in the
western (as in 1984). In 1991-1992 the median value for compulsory adm
ission was 28.8 and for detention during the course of in-patient trea
tment 10.0 per 100 000 inhabitants per year.