@article{ref1,
title="Description of sociodemographic and psychiatric data of 295 patients following attempted suicide by poisoning--inpatient treatment within the scope of a psychiatric liaison service at an internal medicine clinic of a large municipal hospital",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="1986",
author="Torhorst, A. and Wächtler, C. and Moller, Hans-Jurgen",
volume="13",
number="2",
pages="63-71",
abstract="295 attempted suicides with intoxication are described by sociodemographic, biographic, and psychiatric characteristics. The patients were hospitalized for detoxification, and after clearing up interviewed by a psychiatrist working in the hospital as a liaison-psychiatrist. The patients did not differ essentially from patients treated in the emergency unit of another general hospital of the city in terms of basic social data. The patients--65% women, 35% men--are young (up to 40 years), 39% had already attempted suicide before the index-time. 41% came from &quot;broken homes&quot;, 40% had one or more psychiatric disease(s) in their families. 56% were diagnosed as &quot;psychiatrically ill&quot;, second diagnosis was in 33.5% abuse of alcohol/drugs. The referal offer to the patients for the time after discharge from emergency unit is described in detail. Just 12% of the patients were treated in a psychiatric hospital, after-care in an ambulatory setting seemed to be sufficient for most of the other patients. 20% were not offered any after-care. Patients with addiction and psychosis were sent to institutions specialized for these diagnoses.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}