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KMID : 0378019770200040091
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New Medical Journal
1977 Volume.20 No. 4 p.91 ~ p.95
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Psychiatric Evaluation on the Cases Referred for Psychiatric Consultation from the Other Departments in General Hospital
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Abstract
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The psychiatric consultation service in a general hospital has become one of the important area to cover for the psychiatric staff in their hospital.
It is well known, recently, that many psychiatric out patients visit first the non-psychiatric departments in the general hospital.
This study attempts to describe diagnostic characteristics of the cases referred for psychiatric consultation from non psychiatric departments in general hospital.
The subjects were 415 cases who were referred for psychiatric consultation from non psychiatric departments at St. Mary´s Hospitals, Catholic Medical College, during the period from January 1, 1974 to December 31, 1975.
The results were as followings:
1) Referrals were mostly suffering from psychoneurosis.
2) Depression of all degrees of severity is the commonest disorder. Hysterical, anxiety and hypochondriacal neuroses are common. On the other hand schizophrenia is also common but not obsessive compulsive neuroses.
3) The majority cases were referred from the internal medical clinic.
4) The psychiatric out-patients visit first the non psychiatric clinic due to their physical symptoms.
5) Psychiatric consultation services offer the most direct form of collaboration between psychiatry & other departments in the interest of comprehensive patient care.
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