Family-doctor support for patients on a psychiatric case register.
The family-doctor consultations of 76 patients on a psychiatric case register and 76 matched controls were examined. During a two-year period the psychiatric patients consulted just over twice as often as the controls (p < 0.001). Contact with the psychiatric services did not reduce the psychiatric patients' demand for general-practitioner time.
D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012017:Referral and Consultation