A STUDY OF EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS IN A TEACHING GENERAL HOSPITAL1

The socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of one hundred consecutive referrals from emergency O.P.D. of a teaching general hospital were studied. The referral rate was 5.4%. The source, reason and purpose of the referrals were studied. Half of the patients had presented with somatic symptom...

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Autores principales: Kelkar, D.K., Chaturvedi, S.K., Malhotra, S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1982
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965939
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description The socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of one hundred consecutive referrals from emergency O.P.D. of a teaching general hospital were studied. The referral rate was 5.4%. The source, reason and purpose of the referrals were studied. Half of the patients had presented with somatic symptoms. Altered sensorium, suicidal attempt and excitements together constituted one third of all emergency referrals. The diagnosis of neurosis was given in half of the patients and one third of all patients were labelled as suffering from hysterical neurosis. The nature of the presenting complaints and psychiatric diagnoses were comparable to that of the other studies.
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spelling pubmed-30127972011-10-02 A STUDY OF EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS IN A TEACHING GENERAL HOSPITAL1 Kelkar, D.K. Chaturvedi, S.K. Malhotra, S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of one hundred consecutive referrals from emergency O.P.D. of a teaching general hospital were studied. The referral rate was 5.4%. The source, reason and purpose of the referrals were studied. Half of the patients had presented with somatic symptoms. Altered sensorium, suicidal attempt and excitements together constituted one third of all emergency referrals. The diagnosis of neurosis was given in half of the patients and one third of all patients were labelled as suffering from hysterical neurosis. The nature of the presenting complaints and psychiatric diagnoses were comparable to that of the other studies. Medknow Publications 1982 /pmc/articles/PMC3012797/ /pubmed/21965939 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A STUDY OF EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS IN A TEACHING GENERAL HOSPITAL1
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title_short A STUDY OF EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS IN A TEACHING GENERAL HOSPITAL1
title_sort study of emergency psychiatric referrals in a teaching general hospital1
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