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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 33
  • Number 1
  • January 1982

Article

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages25–34

Longitudinal and cross-sectional data have demonstrated a high incidence of physical illness among psychiatric patient populations. Problems involved in the treatment of medically ill psychiatric patients include the nonspecificity of psychiatric symptoms,...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.25

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages35–37

Although the need for specialists in emergency psychiatry is increasing, little attention is given to this field by American psychiatric residency programs, and few psychiatrists choose emergency psychiatry as a career. Like their American counterparts, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.35

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages38–41

Despite the proven clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of partial hospital programs, many third-party insurers still refuse to offer coverage of their services. A number of clinical, administrative, and fiscal issues involving current partial ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.38

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages42–45

A university medical center and a community mental health center undertook an epidemiologic survey of elderly residents of a county in North Carolina and used the data to plan a geriatric mental health program. The survey team assessed the rate and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.42

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages46–48

Nineteen patients who left a short-term psychiatric crisis unit against medical advice were compared with 109 patients who received a regular discharge during a six-month period. Demographic, historic, assessment, and diagnostic variables of both groups ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.46

Publication date: 01 January 1982

Pages49–52

To learn more about the methodological problems inherent in medical care evaluation studies, a quality assurance committee conducted a study of rates of referral failure for potentially suicidal patients seen in the psychiatry division of a university ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.33.1.49

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