Table 2.

Service characteristics

	History with outpatient commitment orders		Only hospital- initiated orders		Both hospital- and community-initiated orders		Only community- initiated orders
Service	(n = 8679)		(n = 7715)		(n = 744)		(n = 415)
Characteristics	Mean	±SD	Mean	±SD	Mean	±SD	Mean	±SD
No. days in system	3104	3554	3070	3586	3664	3344	2728	3216
Total CTO episodes	1.87	1.57	1.71	1.34	3.98	2.39	1.06	0.24
No. orders initiated in community	NA	NA	0	0	1.20	.54	1.06	0.24
Days on community-initiated orders	NA	NA	0	0	189.09	199.01	235.36	280.71
Had >38 day inpatient episode prior to first CTO (%)	20		20		16		26
Total inpatient episodes before first CTO	2.25	2.185	2.20	2.127	2.61	2.630	2.40	2.313
Total inpatient episodes after first CTO	2.46	4.16	2.17	3.83	6.39	5.94	0.65	1.29
Total inpatient episode days before first CTO	86.52	181.15	80.67	153.39	88.18	129.41	192.38	472.31
Total inpatient episode days after first CTO	101.33	265.27	88.88	246.06	267.01	398.03	35.97	198.33
Difference in before/after first CTO in inpatient days use	−14.83	286.50	−8.22	250.10	−178.83	387.66	156.41	495.74

CTO, community treatment order.