The extent and quality of intensive therapy measures in psychiatry

An epidemiological study considered all new admissions that were the subject of intensive therapy in three Leipzig clinics from October 1, 1983 to September 30, 1984, comparing them with a randomly selected control group. From a total of 1,928 admissions, 314 underwent intensive therapy, 46 of these under the intensive therapist (anesthetist, internist, surgeon). Indications arising out of intensive medicine resulted in the transfer of 1.2% of all admissions to other institutions. Extent and quality of the intensive measures was in general judged to be good.