Possible criteria for inpatient psychiatric admissions: which patients are transferred from emergency services to inpatient psychiatric treatment?
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Possible criteria for inpatient psychiatric admissions: which patients are transferred from emergency services to inpatient psychiatric treatment?
BACKGROUND Patients with psychiatric problems often seek help and assistance in hospital emergency departments. An important task of emergency room staff is to decide whether such patients need to be admitted or whether they can be treated on an outpatient basis. METHODS Psychiatric treatments given in the Central Interdisciplinary Emergency Department (CED) at the Medical University of Hanno...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-150