An investigation of factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission despite the presence of crisis resolution teams

Table 4 Results of Multivariate analysis for secondary outcomes¹

Variable	Admission in 6 months after crisis		Bed usage in 8 weeks after crisis		Bed usage in 6 months after crisis		Compulsory admission in 6 months after crisis
	OR + 95% CI	p-value	Mean difference in days between groups + 95% CI¹	p-value	Mean difference in days between groups + 95% CI²	p-value	OR + 95% CI	p-value
Risk of unintentional harm to self	2.91 (1.37 to 6.19)	0.005	7.43 (3.31 to 11.55)	<0.001	12.65 (2.48 to 22.81)	0.02	NS	NS
Risk of harm to others	2.46 (1.03 to 5.88)	0.04	6.08 (1.22 to 10.93)	0.01	16.31 (4.57 to 28.04)	0.007	NS	NS
Assessed in casualty	2.85 (1.41 to 5.73)	0.003	5.85 (1.90 to 9.80)	0.004	9.87 (0.03 to 19.71)	0.05	2.97 (1.07 to 8.29)	0.04
Uncooperative with initial assessment	17.70 (6.28 to 49.90)	<0.001	12.20 (7.39 to 17.00)	<0.001	19.28 (7.47 to 31.08)	0.002	13.74 (5.15 to 36.71)	<0.001
South Islington CRT	7.34 (3.17 to 17.00)	<0.001	6.92 (2.50 to 11.33)	0.002	17.05 (6.19 to 27.90)	0.002	NS	NS
North Southwark CRT	8.19 (3.58 to 18.72)	<0.001	7.39 (2.58 to 12.19)	0.003	NS	NS	NS	NS
Age (per increasing year)	0.97 (0.95 to 1.00)	0.04	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Previously sectioned	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	5.10 (1.52 to 17.07)	0.008
Referred by police	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	6.58 (1.84 to 23.61)	0.004
Black African ethnic group	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS	4.18 (1.34 to 12.97)	0.01

NS = Not significant
¹Variables only appear in this table if they produced a significant result at p < 0.05 in at least one of the analyses.
²A mean difference > 0 indicates that the characteristic listed was associated with an increased number of bed days.

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