Walk-in clinic and diagnostic stability.
One hundred and six consecutively seen psychiatric patients who had undergone detailed evaluation had their diagnosis compared with that arrived at in a walk-in evaluation one week to one month prior to the index evaluation. There was a diagnostic change in 21 cases and a change in drugs in 14. The pitfalls of this method for administering rapid efficient psychiatric care in countries with inadequate psychiatric manpower are highlighted.
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
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D000328:Adult; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*