INTRODUCTION Mental health patients boarding for long hours, even days, in United States emergency departments (EDs) awaiting transfer for psychiatric services has become a considerable and widespread problem. Past studies have shown average boarding times ranging from 6.8 hours to 34 hours. Most proposed solutions to this issue have focused solely on increasing available inpatient psychiatric ...

BACKGROUND More psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (EDs) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ED of Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...

Natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning were used to predict suicidal ideation and heightened psychiatric symptoms among adults recently discharged from psychiatric inpatient or emergency room settings in Madrid, Spain. Participants responded to structured mental and physical health instruments at multiple follow-up points. Outcome variables of interest were suicidal ideation and...

Background: It is evident that psychiatric emergency services play a crucial role in providing mental health services to the community. With the movement towards de-iustitutionalization, psychiatric emergency services PES became a major link between the community and mental health services. Studies conduded over the past three decades revealed that psychiatric emergency services are being used ...

Early detection of psychiatric disorders in general hospital settings could facilitate a systematic assessment anxiety and depression, lessen their non-detection, misdiagnoses subsequent negative impacts. We built new short screening tool with simple Yes/No questions on depression examined its diagnostic capacity acceptability. Our cross-sectional study included 608 patients an emergency depart...

Introduction: Medical emergencies can frequently happen in dental settings and inability to cope with them can lead to tragic outcomes. The of aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental settings in Babol, Iran and dentists’ self-perceived need for practical training in this field. Materials and Methods: A descriptive-ana-lytical study was performed ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a working model that provides an understanding of the process of deliberate self-harm and a framework for psychological intervention in an emergency department setting. METHOD A retrospective clinical audit of a consecutive series of 51 deliberate self-harm patients referred to the liaison psychiatry service by the emergency department of an inner city hospital. RESULTS...

Background:Olanzapine is a highly tolerable and easily affordable atypical antipsychotic drug which has been commonly prescribed in both inpatient and outpatient settings for several mental disorders. Olanzapine overdose is commonly seen in psychiatric patients, who attempt suicide by intoxicating themselves with their own prescribed medications. Increased olanzapine use is associated with incr...