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Article History

Received: 20 September 2022

Accepted: 14 February 2023

First Online: 6 April 2023

Declarations

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: The study has been conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Data were extracted from the records of the mobile psychiatric emergency service. Ethics approval for the study was waived, because deemed unnecessary according to the regulation of the country (no interventions). The authorized Medical Ethics Committee at Erasmus University Medical Center confirmed that the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (Wet Medisch-wetenschappelijk Onderzoek met mensen, known by its Dutch acronym, WMO) did not apply to this study (MEC-2020–0441), and thus ethics approval for the study was waived. The data was provided anonymously, and the authorized Medical Ethics Committee at Erasmus University Medical Center confirmed that the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act (Wet Medisch-wetenschappelijk Onderzoek met mensen, known by its Dutch acronym, WMO) did not apply to this study, and thus that no informed consent was required (MEC-2020–0441).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.