Tirill; id_orcid 0000-0001-5712-5419 Fjellhaugen

Evaluating patient-controlled admissions in adolescent psychiatric care: a quantitative study

BACKGROUND: An agreement on Patient-Controlled Admissions (PCA) is enabling patients to initiate at brief inpatient stay, on their own initiative, outside the existing referral system, at a well-known ward. PCA has mostly been studied in adult psychiatry, and the purpose of the c...