A Study of Patients Attending Emergency Out-patient Services of a Large Teaching Institution
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Authors have studied the pattern of psychiatric morbidity at the general emergency out-patient services and at the emergency psychiatric services being run concurrently at a large teaching institution. The percentage of psychotics was observed to be maximum at emergency psychiatric services. Non-psychiatric medical officers were observed to deal with non-psychotic psychiatric emergencies themselves rather than referring them to emergency psychiatric services.
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