title: Emergencies and somatization.
abstract: The article presents the clinical profile of 72 patients with somatization seen by a psychiatric team at the request of somaticians in a emergency service in St Luc hospital (Brussels-Belgium). These include 37.5% of mood disorders, 11% of psychotic disorders and 20% of serious anxiety disorders. The psychiatric antecedents of these patients are very poor. Only the combined intervention of the somatician and the psychiatrist can improve the compliance and the level of psychiatric care which is very low.
authors.affiliation: Crisis and Psychiatric Emergency Unit, Saint-Luc University Clinic, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Clercq
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brusselmans
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Heymans
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hoyois
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: el Gariani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marion
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meert
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D003710:Demography; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy