Laboratory Evaluation of Newly Admitted Psychiatric Patients

Beresford, Thomas P.

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Section: Clinical History Andphysical Examinationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…-Hepatitis B serology was included for retrospectively unclear reasons -Prostate specific antigen replaced acid phosphatase-a test considered appropriate for routine testing by many (Hall and Beresford, 1984)-on …”

Section: Clinical History Andphysical Examinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The routine testing battery used in our hospital and described in this study may be considered as excessive, but it contains few tests that were not considered appropriate in an extensive review by Hall and Beresford (1984): -Hepatitis B serology was included for retrospectively unclear reasons -Prostate specific antigen replaced acid phosphatase-a test considered appropriate for routine testing by many (Hall and Beresford, 1984)-on (1990). In many hospitals electroencephalography is not a routine procedure.…”

Section: Clinical History Andphysical Examinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Admission laboratory testing in elderly psychiatric patients without organic mental syndromes: Should it be routine?

Harms¹,

Hermans²

1994

Int J Geriat Psychiatry

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SUMMARYThe clinical benefit of an admission screening battery of laboratory tests, electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram and chest X-ray was evaluated in a group of 227 elderly psychiatric patients without clinical evidence of dementia or other organic mental illness. Important contributions from the screening battery to clinical management were obtained only from measurement of blood glucose and thyroid function, and possibly also of red blood cell status, urinalysis and prostatic specific antigen. Given the very limited benefit of extensive screening batteries reported in the literature for psychiatric patients in general, and described in this study for elderly psychiatric patients without organic mental disorder, we suggest that such batteries should only be used in high(er) risk groups, which remain to be defined.

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Section: Clinical History Andphysical Examinationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Clinical History Andphysical Examinationmentioning

confidence: 99%