title: Patterns of psychiatric consultation in a Chinese general hospital.
abstract: The authors conducted a study of psychiatric consultation in a Chinese general hospital. Seventy-five inpatients (0.74% of the patients in the hospital) were referred by different services over a 1-year period. Internal medicine referred the most patients, and organic brain syndromes were the most common diagnoses. Depression was not a frequent diagnosis, but neurasthenia was a fairly common one. None of the referred patients had a diagnosis of alcoholism, drug abuse, or personality disorder. The authors compare these data with those of Western studies and discuss the possible factors influencing psychiatric consultation in China.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009440:Neurasthenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D013038:Specialization