Psychiatric Care in a General Hospital Emergency Room

Errera, Paul

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1963.01720140001001

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“…Errera et al (8) and Weinerman et al (28) report a higher proportion of females than in the general population. No studies were encountered which showed a predominance of male patients among psychiatric emergencies.…”

Section: Sexmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…O'Regan, in a General Hospital Psychiatric Service (20) found 55 per cent single, widowed or" divorced patients. Another General Hospital study by Errera et al (8) showed that 36 per cent of the males and 20 per cent of the females were single, while 27 per cent of the males and 20 per cent of the females were separated, widowed or divorced. Atkins (1) found that only 55 per cent of his Emergency Room psychiatric patients were married and living with their spouses.…”

Section: Marital Statusmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The work of Miller (17), Ungerleider (27), Errera et al (8), Schwartz and Errera (22), Atkins (1), and Chafetz et al (6), shows a predominance of females in Emergency Room populations. Errera et al (8) and Weinerman et al (28) report a higher proportion of females than in the general population.…”

Section: Sexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emergency Services

Brown

Harvey

1971

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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confidence: 92%

Section: Marital Statusmentioning

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Emergency Services

Brown

Harvey

1971

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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“…The over-representation of males in the present study has not been noted in previous North American surveys (1). Most other surveys of psychiatric emergencies find an equal sex distribution or predominance of female patients (2,10,11,17).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…'s does not vary significantly (10) and that the demographic characteristics of patients using emergency services are not subject to seasonal variation (20).…”

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confidence: 99%

Utilization of Emergency Departments for Psychiatric Treatment

1978

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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A survey of four Edmonton hospital emergency department records for a one month period was carried out to determine the frequency of utilization by patients suffering from psychiatric disorders. Male attenders outnumbered females and the majority of patients fell into the 21 — 50 year age range. Alcohol-related illness was almost three times more frequent in males than females, whereas females were more frequently categorized as suffering “personal distress” or presented as suicide attempts. Overall, seventy-three percent of the patients were discharged; of those admitted, females outnumbered males. The changing pattern of emergency department utilization was compared by examining data from one hospital for the years 1972, 1974 and 1976. During this four-year period the annual number of visits by psychiatric patients increased by almost eighty percent, largely due to dramatic increases in alcohol related problems in males and those described as “personal distress” in females. The establishment of intoxication recovery centres in 1973 paralleled a drop in the proportion of patients admitted to inpatient wards for alcohol-related, street drugs and overdose problems. The results of the present survey are compared to those reported in the relevant literature, and the methodological problems encountered in carrying out a retrospective study of emergency services from clinical records are described.

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