Screening of mental health and substance users in frequent users of a general Swiss emergency department
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Screening of mental health and substance users in frequent users of a general Swiss emergency department
BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to determine the proportions of psychiatric and substance use disorders suffered by emergency departments' (EDs') frequent users compared to the mainstream ED population, to evaluate how effectively these disorders were diagnosed in both groups of patients by ED physicians, and to determine if these disorders were predictive of a frequent use of ED s...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Emergency Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-227X
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-015-0053-2