[Indication for psychiatric hospitalization. Critical retrospective study on 416 admissions to the psychiatric...

The authors have strained themselves to value subsequently the legitimacy of the psychiatric admittances that had been requested during the year 1967 for 368 patients already known by their Department: the out-patient psychiatric clinic of Lausanne. In order to that, every case has been referred to several psychiatrists, and the concordance between the opinions expressed by these psychiatrists, in terms of many variables, like the diagnosis or the reason of the admittance, has been examined.