tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Transfers to psychiatry through the consultation-liaison psychiatry service: 11 years of experience"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Transfers to psychiatry through the consultation-liaison psychiatry service: 11 years of experience. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Transfers to psychiatry through the consultation-liaison psychiatry service 11 years of experience Christos Christodoulou 1 2 Katerina Fineti 1 Athanasios Douzenis 1 George Moussas 1 loannis Michopoulos 1 and Lefteris Lykouras 1 Open Access Address 1Second Department of Psychiatry University of Athens Medical School Attikon General Hospital 1 Rimini Street 124 62 Athens Greece and 2Department of Psychiatry General Hospital of Athens G. Gennimatas 154 Mesogion Avenue 115 27 Athens Greece Email Christos Christodoulou - Katerina Fineti - kfineti@ Athanasios Douzenis - thandouz@ George Moussas - gmps@ loannis Michopoulos - imichopou@ Lefteris Lykouras - elykoura@ Corresponding author tEqual contributors Published 14 August 2008 Received 7 March 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 10 doi l744-859X-7-l0 Accepted I4 August 2008 This article is available from http content 7 l l0 2008 Christodoulou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background There are only a few reports on issues related to patient transfer from medical and surgical departments to the psychiatric ward by the consultation-liaison psychiatry service although it is a common practice. Here we present a study assessing the factors that influence such transfers. Method We examined the demographic and clinical backgrounds of a group of patients transferred from internal medicine and surgery to the psychiatric ward over an ll-year period. A comparison was made of this .