[Emergency admission of psychiatric patients].

Abstract

The authors deal with the demographic, social, psychiatric and diagnostic characteristics of the patients requiring urgent hospitalization, analyzes these characteristics in urgently hospitalized patients and their differences regarding sex. Urgent hospitalization of a psychiatric patient is caused primarily by the necessity for a medical care because of acute psychopathological disturbances. Biological conditions are essential in the urgent hospitalizations of psychiatric patients. There are significant differences between males and females as to the morbidity of urgently hospitalized patients. In males acute alcoholic conditions, alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses prevail, in females acute psychogeriatric disturbances, reactive psychotic conditions, non-psychotic reactive conditions, undefined depressions and suicidal attempts resulting from psychoreactive conditions and neurotic disturbances. Age, working and marital status are the characteristics more closely connected with the sex and urgent hospitalization, while other social and demographic characteristic have no great influence on urgent hospitalization. Urgently hospitalized males are more often employed, young and not married, the females are retired, elderly and widows. The analysis of these data allows the planning of the organization of urgent hospitalizations, but also it offers an insight into the structure of urgent hospitalizations of psychiatric patients, the urgency of psychic disturbances, characteristics of this urgency and its underlying conditions.