Psychiatric Services in 1975

Excessive use of psychiatric services by suicidal patients.

The use of psychiatric services by patients with a suicidal history was examined to see if they placed a greater long-term burden on these services than other types of patient. Suicidal patients spent significantly more days in hospital and made more outpatient attendances; suicide attemptors in particular not only needed more emergency consultations but also spent more days in hospital. A more...

Psychiatric Services in the Hospital Plan

^PHE Hospital Plan for England and Wales,* published by the Minister of Health in January, has made clearer the future of psychiatric services and the mental hospitals. The plan consists largely of area-by-area lists?of hospitals and beds at the end of 1960, of developments under way or planned, and of hospitals and beds expected to be provided by 1975. However, psychiatric services, including ...

The dysfunction of DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

The task of seeking alternatives to a classification system such as DSM-II that will maximize its benefits and minimize its limitation is a complex and arduous one. There are no clear-cut answers. Certain issues had been elaborated on here. The task at hand is one that must be approached on a multiprofessional basis seeking to integrate a variety of theoretical bases into a functional conceptua...

Use of psychiatric services by patients in a general hospital.

OBJECTIVE To identify physical disorders associated with increased rate of use of psychiatric services. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of routine abstracts of general hospital inpatient records linked with those of psychiatric care, for inpatients with physical disorders with possible psychiatric associations and for controls. SETTING Oxfordshire health district. SUBJECTS Inpatients aged 1...

[Letter: Psychiatric classification of psychiatric patients].