Nonpsychiatrist House Staff Frequently Misdiagnose Psychiatric Disorders in General Hospital Inpatients

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Internship and Residency 63%
• Diagnostic Errors 59%
• General Hospitals 58%
• Mental Disorders 49%
• Inpatients 48%
• Psychiatry 32%
• Consultants 18%
• Adjustment Disorders 11%
• Delirium 9%
• Referral and Consultation 6%
• Physicians 5%

Social Sciences

• hospital inpatient 100%
• staff 36%
• psychiatrist 24%
• underage 14%
• physician 9%

Arts & Humanities

• Staff 43%
• Consultants 18%
• Psychiatrists 16%
• Delirium 11%
• Physicians 6%