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Community Psychiatry and Emergency Service
- Source :
- American Journal of Psychiatry. 129:710-715
- Publication Year :
- 1972
- Publisher :
- American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1972.
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Abstract
- The psychiatric emergency service at the Orange County (Calif.) Medical Center provides emergency service for periods from one to two hours up to a day or more on the unit. Comparisons were made between patients seen only once over the first four months of operation and those seen more than once during that period. Patients with acute situational problems could be handled on a one-visit basis, often without hospitalization. Those with personality disorders (including alcohol and drug problems) came more frequently and were hospitalized more often.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Adolescent
Substance-Related Disorders
Psychiatric Department, Hospital
Patient Readmission
California
Sampling Studies
Appointments and Schedules
medicine
Humans
Child
Community Psychiatry
Hospitals, Teaching
Psychiatry
Referral and Consultation
Service (business)
business.industry
Mental Disorders
Alcohol and drug
medicine.disease
Personality disorders
Hospitalization
Alcoholism
Psychiatry and Mental health
Crisis Intervention
Female
Medical emergency
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15357228 and 0002953X
- Volume :
- 129
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e7e6f512c3c5ea8d6a454fba684ba4bb