title: 'The patient is medically cleared'.
abstract: It is standard practice for psychiatric nurses and junior doctors working in emergency departments to ask that patients be 'medically cleared' before psychiatric admission or even assessment. However, there is a lack of agreement over what this process should entail.
authors.affiliation: ST6 in Psychiatry.
authors.forename: Chloe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beale
authors.forename: Trevor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Turner
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D062209:Patient Handoff; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*