On transferring certain patients from medicine to psychiatry: a biopsychosocial analysis of turfing.
Turfing is a process by which unwanted patients are transferred from one hospital service to another for a variety of biopsychosocial reasons. Turfing results from a complex cost-benefit analysis conducted by physicians who are influenced by personal and institutional pressures, as well as by the patients' specific clinical problems, illness behaviors, and personality. A set of interventions that deal comprehensively with such phenomena must take all these influences into account.
D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000191:economics; D010551:Personality; D010819:Physician's Role; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012803:Sick Role