title: Informal admission of patients to state psychiatric institutions.
abstract: Informal hospital admission procedures require no written application by patients and provide that patients must be released upon their demand to leave the hospital. Statistics indicate that informal admission is infrequently used by hospital staff where the more restrictive conditional voluntary procedure is available. Origins of staff reluctance to use informal admission are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002961:Civil Rights; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008722:Methods; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States