BACKGROUND Very few studies have evaluated the reasons for referral to consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry teams. AIM This study aimed to evaluate the psychiatric morbidity pattern, reasons for referral and diagnostic concordance between physicians/surgeons and the CL psychiatry team. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred and nineteen psychiatric referrals made to the CL psychiatry team were a...

BACKGROUND Thyroid dysfunction is frecuent in psychiatric outpatients and in the general Chilean population but there is no information about the prevalence of thyroid diseases in Chilean psychiatric inpatients. AIM To retrospectively assess the frequency of thyroidal diseases in psychiatric inpatients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Clinical charts and thyroid assessment of 241 psychiatric inpatient...

This study examined the course of postpartum psychiatric disorders in a community sample of mothers and their partners to determine whether sociodemographic variables, life stress, and psychiatric history were related to persistence of mental health problems. At 6 months postpartum, 48 index couples where the wife had a psychiatric disorder at 2 months postpartum and 50 control couples with no ...

OBJECTIVE To identify rates of and risk factors for psychiatric diagnosis preceding the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease. METHOD Systematic, retrospective, blinded chart review was performed of 252 patients with a neurodegenerative disease diagnosis seen in our specialty clinic between 1999 and 2008. Neurodegenerative disease diagnoses included behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia...

Correction Since the publication of our article [1], we have noticed an error which occurs in three different places. We refer to 25% who met the criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis, but the correct value is 20%. Details of each correction are listed below. Firstly, in the first sentence of the Results section of the Abstract, the statement “Among the suicides 25% met the criteria for a psychi...

It was hypothesized that symptoms reflect a patient's social competence or maturity level and that this maturity level is related to the diagnosis he receives. Symptom scales based on empirical relations between symptoms and competence levels were constructed for 3 spheres of functioning: thought, affect, and action. Results obtained with 504 psychiatric patients showed that (a) placement on ea...

physical disorders can be seen in psychiatric patients. in addition, a delayed diagnosis can cause a serious complication of the physical disorder among such patients. in this report, a case of appendicitis in a psychiatric case with drug withdrawal symptoms was reported.