Mattias Strand is Consultant Psychiatrist at the Stockholm Centre for Eating Disorders . He is also a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm , where his main research focus is on self‐admission as a potential tool in the treatment of severe eating disorders. In this post, he discusses the background to, and main claims of, a recent paper, co-authored with Manne Sjöstrand , Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics at Karolinska Institutet, " Self‐admission in psychiatry: The ethics ". In recent years, self-admission to inpatient treatment has become an increasingly popular treatment tool in psychiatry in the Scandinavian countries as well as in the Netherlands. In self-admission, patients who are well known to a service and who have a history of high utilization of inpatient treatment are invited to decide for themselves when a brief admission episode – usually 3-7 days at a time – is warranted. Patien...
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