Citation

Seltzer A. J. R. Soc. Med. 1989; 82(7): 410-412.

Affiliation

Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Royal Society of Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2585427

PMCID

PMC1292206

Abstract

Twenty seven per cent of medical emergency admissions were found to have diagnosable psychiatric disorders, mostly mild. Although ward staff assessed 31.1% of admissions as having emotional or psychological problems, only a minority had diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Few patients were referred for specialist psychiatric help. This partly reflected the milder nature of problems identified by ward staff, and partly indifference to psychiatry.

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