Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission

Table 5 DUNDRUM-2 triage urgency scale items and length of stay to discharge or end of study

Score	0			1			2			3			4			Log rank Mantel-Cox
Item	N	Median	SE	n	Median	SE	n	Median	SE	n	Median	SE	n	Median	SE	X ²	P
TU1: location	1	11	–	24	24	4.9	118	55	6.7	63	76	22.3	73	61	20.4	25.5	0.001
TU2: mental health needs	8	46	65.5	55	54	11.1	127	61	5.6	83	53	6.1	8	28	14.1	2.9	0.570
TU3: suicide prevention	79	56	11.9	112	61	6.2	37	57	7.9	35	49	6.5	15	40	7.1	3.3	0.506
TU4: humanitarian need	181	57	5.7	8	102	61.5	8	62	284.3	59	49	10.9	22	48	15.2	4.2	0.381
TU5: systemic factors	7	20	11.8	11	26	36.9	8	22	14.9	20	49	31.3	232	57	4.9	7.1	0.131
TU6: legal urgency	138	53	3.5	57	61	9.2	45	97	53.7	9	30	13.4	29	46	14.7	5.5	0.239

Calculated from Kaplan-Meyer survival analysis. Medians, standard errors and Log rank Mantel-Cox X ², df = 4, n = 279

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