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Treatment of Psychiatric Hospital Patients Transferred to Emergency Departments

Psychosomatics, 2005
Two hundred public psychiatric hospitals were surveyed regarding their management of inpatients with serious medical problems. Of the 102 hospitals responding, 98 had a formal arrangement with a medical facility for transfer and treatment. Fifty of the respondents felt they regularly had difficulty in receiving acceptable information from the receiving
Bazemore, Patricia H., Gitlin, David F., Soreff, Stephen   +2 more
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General Paresis in the Psychiatric Department of a General Hospital in India

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1972
Thirty-four first admissions between the years 1964 and 1970 into the Department of Psychiatry, Erskine Hospital, Madurai, South India, who were diagnosed as general paresis formed the material for this prospective study. Diagnosis was based on clinical and positive blood and CSF serology, and on Lange's paretic reaction in the CSF.
A V, Rao, P S, Ranganathan, M, Natarajan
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Inpatient treatment in the psychiatric department of a German prison hospital

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2012
Although the construct of psychic incompetence can prevent severely mentally disturbed persons from being imprisoned in Germany, the prevalence of mentally disordered persons who are detained is high. Data describing the characteristics of mentally disturbed detainees in Germany are scarce.
Annette, Opitz-Welke, Norbert, Konrad
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Patterns of Care in a District General Hospital Psychiatric Department

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1988
A survey of all admissions of patients under the age of 65 during the first 6 years of a District General Psychiatric Department without mental-hospital support is reported. Three high-uptake groups of in-patients were defined; the long-stay (12 months or more), the medium-stay (6–12 months), and the revolving-door group (more than three admissions in ...
R E, Lawrence, S, Cumella, J A, Robertson   +2 more
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The Emergence of Psychiatric Departments as Quasi-Units in General Hospitals

Psychiatric Services, 1991
The organization of inpatient psychiatric treatment in general hospitals was investigated using data from the Hospital Discharge Surveys for 1980 and 1985 and definitions of psychiatric services used by the American Hospital Association and the National Institute of Mental Health.
C A, Kiesler, C, Simpkins
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Emergency Psychiatric Referrals to the Casualty Department of a General Hospital

Scottish Medical Journal, 1968
A survey of 100 consecutive cases referred as psychiatric emergencies to the casualty department of a general hospital is reported. Cases of self-poisoning recognised by the casualty officers were not included. Fifty-seven of the patients were self-referred. Significant excesses were found in the sample of men in social classes IV and
D, Le Poidevin, A H, Reid
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[Nurses in the psychiatric department of a community hospital].

Psychiatrische Praxis, 1983
Anyone who tries to convert a Psychiatric Department into a hospitable home for the benefit on the inmates and their environment, has quite often not reckoned with, the "host", that is to say, with the doctors, nurses and the hospital staff in general. Hence, it seems that a fundamental change in the attitude and consciousness of those who are engaged ...
D, Mayer, B, Driburg
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[Intervention possibilities in the geronto-psychiatric department of a psychiatric hospital].

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie, 1980
There are three possibilities of intervention for the gerontological departments of the great hospitals of mental health. While as a first step the medical and psychiatric first aid is given in the admission departments, special departments for rehabilitation and daycare offer as well programs for social training, such as cooking, shopping, traffic ...
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[Effectiveness of psychiatric departments at general hospitals].

Psychiatrie, Neurologie, und medizinische Psychologie, 1987
A few statistics referring to the psychiatric hospital of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, which has taken over the function of a local psychiatric unit providing ward and semi-clinical treatment for the inhabitants of an urban district with 110,000 residents, are presented as an index of the work performed and success achieved by this sort of ...
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The organization of psychiatric services for general hospital departments

2012
AbstractThe organization of psychiatric services for general hospital departments might change in far-reaching ways in the coming decades. Whereas the focus was primarily on reactive services for inpatients on medical and surgical wards, the future should focus on more proactive integrated service delivery for the complex medically ill.
Frits J. Huyse, Roger G. Kathol, Wolfgang Söllner, Lawson Wulsin   +3 more
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