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ReviewDer Nervenarzt2025

How many psychiatric beds are needed-and for what?

Stefan Priebe

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Review in Der Nervenarzt, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stefan PriebeCentre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. stefan.k.priebe@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-3394

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current article addresses, from different perspectives, the question of the optimal number of psychiatric hospital beds required. It summarizes reviews of expert opinions and estimates of optimal bed numbers, considers the balance between inpatient care and other institutions and services for people with mental disorders, addresses associated issues such as the length of stay, and outlines the importance of the local context. Furthermore, it presents the different objectives of bed provision and concludes by presenting a way forward, utilizing data on populations, patients, services, and treatments at a local level.

Indexed as

Bed OccupancyHealth Services Needs and DemandHospital Bed CapacityHospitals, PsychiatricMental DisordersGermanyHumansLength of StayEvaluationHospital bed capacityLength of stayMental healthPsychiatric illness

Identifiers

PMID40853396
PMCPMC12586228

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