title: Identification of psychological morbidity in older people in primary care by practice nurses.
abstract: Older people with psychological morbidity often come into contact first with primary care services, thus researchers have devoted much attention to how effective such contacts may be. In this study, carried out in inner London, assessments of 190 older patients undertaken by eight practice nurses were compared with the results provided by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The results indicated that the practice nurses identified only about a quarter of the probable cases of psychological morbidity.