Psychiatric Care in a General Hospital Emergency Room

Schwartz, Marc D.; Errera, Paul

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1963.01720140009002

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“…Schwartz and Errera (6) report that this group made up approximately 20 per cent of their study population, about twice the proportion reported for the outpatient clinic population in the United States. They comment that the Emergency Room is more available for immediate, unplanned treatment, attuned to the impulsive behaviour characteristic of alcoholics.…”

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confidence: 86%

Psychiatric Patients in the General Hospital Casualty Service

Harvey

Brown

1971

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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Data are presented regarding the psychiatric patients seen in the Casualty-Emergency Service of the Winnipeg General Hospital during a fifteen-day period, and this group is compared with the general casualty intake, and to a lesser extent with the population of the area served. The psychiatric patients had a higher proportion of: 1) admissions to hospital 2) females 3) persons aged 40 - 49 4) persons divorced or legally separated 5) newcomers to the Province 6) visits between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. In the psychiatric group there was a preponderance of women among those diagnosed as neurotic and of men among those diagnosed as alcoholic. These findings are discussed and compared with those in the literature.

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confidence: 86%

Psychiatric Patients in the General Hospital Casualty Service

Harvey

Brown

1971

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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“…Even the simplest measure in the entire study, namely the total patient visits, could not be ascertained precisely. Schwartz and Errera (22), Scawarz and Tyhurst (23) and Ungerleider (27) comment on similar problems in Emergency Room records.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Ungerleider (27) demonstrated a preponderance of patients in their 30s with only 8 per cent of patients over 69. Other authors (22,20,28,5,11,6,4,14) found that the incidence of emergency psychiatric referrals declined with advancing age. Compared with the general population, there appears to be an over-representation of both psychiatric and non-psychiatric emergency patients ill!…”

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Emergency Services

Brown

Harvey

1971

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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“…Ces particularités de la clientèle psychiatrique des salles d'urgence de Montréal se retrouvent en général dans la clientèle psychiatrique des services d'urgence sur tout le continent Nord-Américain; en effet les études de Chafetz et collaborateurs (1966), Miller (1968, Ungerleider (1960), Biais et Georges (1969), Schwartz et Errera (1963), Atkins (1967), Silvert (1964) démontrent : une prédominance des patients psychiatriques aux salles d'urgence dont l'âge se situe autour de 30 ans et une sous-représentation des patients au-dessus de 60 ans; une sur-représentation de la population féminine ; une proportion significativement plus élevée de personnes célibatai-res, divorcées ou séparées ; une utilisation des salles d'urgence par des patients psychiatriques appartenant surtout à un faible niveau socio-économique 5 .…”

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