Title: A study of psychiatric consultations in a general hospital
Abstract: A study was carried out on fifty consecutive psychiatric consultations made on the general wards of a private hospital. Data are presented on a number of aspects of these consultations, such as the timing of the referral, the reason for referral, the medical and psychiatric diagnosis of the patients, and others. Evidence underlining the risk of suicide in certain patients admitted to a general hospital was found in this study, and also the relatively poor prognosis of those patients who suffered episodes of acute brain syndrome. As many of the patients as possible were followed up after an interval of, on the average, 12 months, and re-examined. The original psychiatric impressions were found to be confirmed in all these patients, though the proportion of patients for whom no specific psychiatric diagnosis could be made, was high.
Publication Year: 1962
Publication Date: 1962-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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