Physical findings in a psychiatric outpatient clinic.
To determine the frequency of previously undiagnosed, positive physical findings in a psychiatric outpatient clinic population, the authors examined the case records of 910 consecutively admitted patients who had been given screening physical examinations including urinalyses. They found that 20.4% of the patients had some medical abnormality that was previously undiagnosed, and they encourage psychiatrists to make the physical examination a routine part of their total psychiatric evaluation.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination