TY - JOUR
T1 - Disposition of psychiatric emergency patients
T2 - patient characteristics associated with hospitalization
AU - Hoehn-Saric, Rudolf
AU - Hatcher, Myron E.
AU - Weiskopf, Constance
PY - 1980/12
Y1 - 1980/12
N2 - A study was conducted in February and March 1976 to determine those characteristics of psychiatric patients seen in a general emergency department which were associated with a subsequent hospitalization. Two hundred eighteen patients were rated on a questionnaire which covered demographic data, social history and support system, present illness, compliance, diagnosis, and disposition. Sixty-four percent of patients were evaluated by psychiatric residents. The remaining patients were interviewed by non-doctoral psychiatric workers and subsequently reexamined by residents. The data show that overall severity of illness and lack of preceding psychiatric treatment, as well as difficulties in management, are related to the hospitalization of psychotic patients. In nonpsychotic patients, hospitalization was more often related to the presence of depression and solitary living conditions than to the overall severity of symptoms.
AB - A study was conducted in February and March 1976 to determine those characteristics of psychiatric patients seen in a general emergency department which were associated with a subsequent hospitalization. Two hundred eighteen patients were rated on a questionnaire which covered demographic data, social history and support system, present illness, compliance, diagnosis, and disposition. Sixty-four percent of patients were evaluated by psychiatric residents. The remaining patients were interviewed by non-doctoral psychiatric workers and subsequently reexamined by residents. The data show that overall severity of illness and lack of preceding psychiatric treatment, as well as difficulties in management, are related to the hospitalization of psychotic patients. In nonpsychotic patients, hospitalization was more often related to the presence of depression and solitary living conditions than to the overall severity of symptoms.
KW - disposition of patients
KW - emergency
KW - psychiatric
KW - psychiatric emergency
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U2 - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80470-7
DO - 10.1016/S0196-0644(80)80470-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 7447096
AN - SCOPUS:0019158466
VL - 9
SP - 605
EP - 609
JO - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
JF - Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians
SN - 0196-0644
IS - 12
ER -