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Psychiatric presentations to an accident and emergency department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Dunn  and
Renuka Fernando
John Dunn
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 (correspondence)
Renuka Fernando
Affiliation:
Pembury Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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The nature, management and disposal of patients who present to casualty departments and receive psychiatric diagnoses by the assessing doctor are areas that have received scant attention by psychiatric researchers. The aim of this study was to analyse the records of such patients to see how they had been managed, in particular to document the degree of psychiatric intervention provided or offered, and to see what follow-up arrangements, if any, had been made.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 1989 , pp. 672 - 674
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