Unwelcome guests: bugbears of the emergency room physician.
In a prospective study on psychiatric emergencies in the setting of a general hospital, the phenomenon of repeat-visits was studied. Results confirm that repeaters represent a sizeable load on emergency services--about 18% of all psychiatric emergencies. Females and neurotics are over-represented among the repeaters. Chronic repeaters tend to evoke strong feelings among the emergency physicians thereby decreasing their chances of referral to the psychiatry resident on call.
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Dept of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003688:Deinstitutionalization; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011446:Prospective Studies