What Happens when Psychiatric Out-Patients are seen Once Only?
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 148 (6) , 663-666
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.148.6.663
Abstract
The outcome of 30 new psychiatric outpatient consultations at which the psychiatrist decided to see the patient once only was examined after 3 months. Patients were referred from general practice, and evaluation was primarily from the viewpoint of practitioners; the majority were satisfied with a single consultation. However, only about half the patients were seen again by their GPs within the 3-month period, and most of the treatments recommended by the psychiatrists were not carried out by the GPs. Suggestions are offered to ameliorate this disturbing state of affairs.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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