Citation

Posel C, Moss J. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 1998; 20(3): 198-201.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9650039

Abstract

We studied the clinical characteristics of trauma patients referred to psychiatry to determine whether these patients differ from the total trauma population. A chart review of trauma cases referred to psychiatry at our setting in 1995 (N = 60) was compared with all 609 trauma admissions from the same period. The most common reasons for referral were suicide attempts and depression. The most common diagnosis was mood disorders (28%). The patients required an average 5.1 follow-up visits. The psychiatric referral group had twice the length of stay. Psychiatric illness is relatively common in trauma patients and impacts on psychiatric service resources and length of hospital stay.

Language: en