The psychiatric physical examination - Part II: findings in 75 unselected psychiatric patients.
The psychiatric physical examination described in the previous paper was done on 75 new psychiatric inpatients. The examiners were one psychiatrist and two psychiatrist-internists. Results confirmed the high frequency of known and unsuspected medical illnesses previously reported in the literature. Additionally, the specific "psychiatric physical examination" confirmed the known psychiatric diagnoses in 76% of the patients and led to consideration of a second or other psychiatric diagnoses in 43% of the patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination; D013997:Time Factors