Do patients need a psychiatric emergency clinic?

Do We Need Psychiatric Hospitals?

to follow their predecessors into the rigid acceptance of what was thought to be right. The provision of total community care without any in-patient facilities might eliminate most of the dangers and disadvantages of hospital care. Stigma should be reduced, since people would not 'go away'. Problems would have to be solved in the situation in which they occurred and treatment tried out in reali...

What do consumers say they want and need during a psychiatric emergency?

Behavioral emergencies are a common and serious problem for consumers, their families and communities, and the healthcare providers on whom they rely for help. In recent years, serious concerns about the management of behavioral and psychiatric emergencies-in particular, the misapplication and overuse of physical and chemical restraints and seclusion-have become a focus of attention for mental ...

[Emergency evaluation of psychiatric patients].

psychiatric emergency triage in iran; the need for a specific tool

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Psychiatric referral of patients in a venereal diseases clinic.

was opened in 1965 at the Middlesex Hospital, and psychiatric investigation has been regularly available since December, 1967. This follows the general policy at the Middlesex, where a member of the department of psychiatry is attached to each department of the general hospital; and accords with the specific recommendations (Pahmer, 1949; Mayer-Gross, Slater, and Roth, 1960) that venereology cl...