Table 3.

Use of hospital mental health services in the 2 years before and in the 2 years during out-patient commitment (OPC)

	2 years before OPC, mean			2 years of OPC, mean
	OPC group	Control group	P	OPC group	Control group	P
Admissions, n	2.16	2.4	0.6	1.69	1.34	0.4
Emergency visits, n	1.84	1.77	0.7	0.77	0.53	0.2
Hospital stay, days	21.94	21.33	0.7	16.41	19.55	0.3
Patients, n (%)	75 (100)	75 (100)		31 (41)	24 (32)