Post-stroke patients in rehabilitation. The relationship between biological impairment (CT scanning), physical disability and clinical depression.

A study of 128 consecutive patients with thromboembolic stroke in a rehabilitation hospital from July 1988 to September 1990 found a prevalence of major depression of 17%. The patient population was described according to the principles of the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (ICIDH) according to biological impairment, measured by computerized tomography (CT) scanning of the brain and side of hemiparesis and physical disability, measured by functional movement and activities of daily living. Handicap, referring to the interaction between disability and the environmental situation, often defined as the subjective disadvantage of being ill, was not measured in this study.

[Emergency treatment of alcoholics. Review of the admissions and readmissions to a psychiatric department with regard to the features of the group].

A retrospective investigation revealed 107 patients (29 women and 78 men) with the diagnosis of alcoholism who were admitted to the County Hospital in Vordingborg during a period of six months. Readmissions of these patients during the subsequent two years were registered. The object of the investigation was to characterize these patients as regards the mental and social conditions, as it was our impression that these conditions were of significance in the referral for treatment in the psychiatric department.

[Patient advisors and coercion in psychiatry. The situation 3 months after the introduction of the Act on restriction of liberty and other coercive measures in psychiatry].

In a retrospective investigation, we attempted to estimate the effect of introduction of a new law about coercive measures and loss of liberty in psychiatric wards during the first three months after enforcement of the law. By examination of case reports we found that 69 patients, i.e.

[Access to case records at the County Hospital in Vordingborg].

During 1987, all requests for access to case records at the Psychiatric Hospital in Vordingborg were registered prospectively. Fifty-nine patients made a total of 69 requests for access to case records. The total time used by the staff in connection with the requests was 51 hours and 47 minutes.

[District psychiatry in the Naestved region. Consequences of a reorganization].

Community psychiatry was introduced in the Naestved region on 1.1.1987.