AIMS AND METHOD The aim of the study was to investigate whether psychiatrists consider that patients with schizophrenia present a greater risk of violence than patients with other forms of mental illness. Two pairs of clinical vignettes were devised. In each pair, one contained a history of violence and one did not. One vignette was mailed to each of 2000 consultant psychiatrists in the UK. Res...

BACKGROUND Prior studies of the impact of psychiatric comorbidity on outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have frequently relied on inpatient secondary diagnosis codes. This study compared associations between psychiatric comorbidity and AMI outcomes that were derived using secondary diagnosis codes and codes captured from prior outpatient encounters. METHODS AND RESULTS Retrospec...

OBJECTIVE To investigate psychiatric and neurological morbidity, diagnostic stability, and indicators of prognosis in patients previously identified as having medically unexplained motor symptoms. DESIGN Follow up study. SETTING National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London--a secondary and tertiary referral hospital for neurological disorders. SUBJECTS 73 patients with medical...

Contemporary researchers in psychiatry have sought to develop a nosology based on empirical observation, in line with the principles spelled out by Drs Eli Robins and Samuel B. Guze in 1970. For more than 2 decades, psychiatrists using neuroimaging have aspired to provide one form of "laboratory study" that Robins and Guze said would have to be in place for a psychiatric diagnosis to be valid: ...

AIMS AND METHOD The aim of the study was to investigate whether psychiatrists consider that patients with schizophrenia present a greater risk of violence than patients with other forms of mental illness. Two pairs of clinical vignettes were devised. In each pair, one contained a history of violence and one did not. One vignette was mailed to each of 2000 consultant psychiatrists in the UK. Res...

BACKGROUND Administrative data can be used to support research, such as in the UK Biobank. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are national data for England that include contain ICD-10 diagnoses for inpatient mental healthcare episodes, but the validity of these diagnoses for research purposes has not been assessed. METHODS 250 peoples' HES records were selected based on a HES recorded inpatien...

Children with somatoform illness present a real diagnostic and management puzzle for the pediatric hospitalist. These children are a source of diagnostic confusion, often leading to unnecessary hospitalization, extensive testing, and frustration on the part of caretakers and providers. The psychiatric underpinnings of their clinical presentation are frequently only discovered through a process ...

The aim of our study was to determine the impact of psychiatric comorbidities on the health-related quality of life of HCV-infected patients. Assessment of clinical, socio-demographic and quality of life data of the patients followed up at a Hepatology unit was performed by using a standard questionnaire and the SF-36 instrument. Psychiatric diagnoses were confirmed by using the Mini Internatio...