Table 1.

Criteria for involuntary admission

	Date of publication	Diagnoses legally defined	Medical Protective Admission			Emergency Admission
			Need to treatment	Danger to self	Impairment of judgment	Risk to self	Risk to other	Risk to society/public order
Shanghai	2002	Mental illness	Yes	n. d.	Competence of insight	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ningbo*	2006	Mental illness	Yes	n. d.	Recognize or control behavior	-	-	-
Hangzhou*	2007	Mental illness	Yes	n. d.	do.	-	-	-
Beijing	2007	Severe mental illness	n. d.	n. d.	Identify health conditions or external reality, control behavior	No	Yes	Yes
Wuxi	2007	Severe mental illness	n. d.	n. d.	do.	No	Yes	Yes
Wuhan*	2010	Mental illness	Yes	n. d.	Recognize or control behavior	-	-	-
Shenzhen	2012	Mental illness	Yes	n. d.	do.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Draft 1	Jun 2011	Mental illness	No	Yes	do.	No	Yes	Yes
Draft 2	Oct 2001	Severe mental illness	Yes	Yes	Identify health conditions or external reality, manage personal affairs	No	Yes	No
National Law	2012	Severe mental illness	No	Yes	do.	No	Yes	No
Draft 1	Jun 2011	Mental illness	No	Yes	do.	No	Yes	Yes
Draft 2	Oct 2001	Severe mental illness	Yes	Yes	Identify health conditions or external reality, manage personal affairs	No	Yes	No
National Law	2012	Severe mental illness	No	Yes	do.	No	Yes	No

^*In Ningbo, Hangzhou and Wuhan, there have no clearly legal regulations on Emergency Admission. Mental illness patients with danger to others or society can only be detained as a “Compulsory Admission” patient if his/her danger behavior constitute a criminal offense. In such situation, the use of “Compulsory Admission” will be decided by police after a forensic psychiatry evaluation.

Abbreviations:

n. d. not defined;

do. Ditto