Statistics Norway

Specialist health services, psychiatry

18   Admittance of overnight patients according to section. 2002-2004. Numbers and per cent1
  Number of admittances according to section Share of total number of admittances according to section. Per cent
  2002 2003 2004 2002 2003 2004
§ 2-1 Voluntary overnight stays 28 429 31 785 34 388 74 75 79
§ 2-2 Voluntary overnight stays with contract  762  514  373 2 1 1
§ 3-8 and 3-6 Forced observation with overnight stay 4 507 4 940 4 595 12 12 10
§ 3-8 and 3-1 Forced psychiatric health care with overnight stay 4 432 4 489 4 322 12 11 10
Sentenced to psychiatric health care with overnight stay 15 30 33 0 0 0
Admittances pursuant to other laws2, and not distributed admittances  305  440 63 1 1 0
Total number of admittances 38 464 42 197 43 774  101  100  100
1  Lov om etablering og gjennomføring av psykisk helsevern av 2. juli 1999.
2  Lov om barneverntenester og lov om sosiale tenester.

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