Issues in the diagnosis and treatment of adolescents in a general hospital inpatient unit.

abstract：:The psychiatric literature on competency indicates that a diagnosable psychiatric condition alone does not imply incompetency to make treatment decisions. Nonetheless, it is frequently assumed that individuals who are either mentally retarded or demented are incompetent to make decisions. The authors, focusing on the ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Kaplan KH,Strang JP,Ahmed I

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Over the last decade, charcoal burning has become a common method of suicide in Taiwan; however, the underlying psychiatric diagnoses and gender differences have yet to be examined. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective chart review on inpatients after suicide attempt by charcoal burning during 2000-2010. The...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Lin C,Yen TH,Juang YY,Leong WC,Hung HM,Ku CH,Lin JL,Lee SH

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective was to assess the association between asthma and depressive symptoms (DS) and to evaluate the relationship between DS and risk factors [smoking, physical inactivity, body mass index (BMI) and sleep duration] in asthmatic individuals. METHODS:We analyzed data from the Israeli National Health Int...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Goral A,Lipsitz JD,Muhsen K,Gross R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships specified in DSM-III between somatization disorder and depression, and somatization disorder and hypochondriasis require further validation and easier methods of detection for use by primary care physicians. The authors investigated hypochondriacal and depressive symptoms in 13 family practice outpat...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Oxman TE,Barrett J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article illustrates how a mandatory consult procedure identified treatable psychiatric problems. Using a computerized data-based format, 372 (37.4%) patients (the "judgment" group) of 996 psychiatric consultations were identified as referred to assess the patient's capacity to execute a consent form for a medical...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Strain JJ,Taintor Z,Gise LH,Spikes J

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Additional psychiatric disorders in eating disorders patients may contribute to the risk of suicide and suicide attempts. The aim of this study was to examine associations between Axes I and II comorbidity and suicidality in a large sample of women currently suffering from an eating disorder (ED). In a sample of 288 w...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Milos G,Spindler A,Hepp U,Schnyder U

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Individuals with schizophrenia are more likely to develop diabetes than individuals without schizophrenia. The objective of this study was to determine the quality of diabetes care and diabetes-related health outcomes among individuals with and without schizophrenia. METHOD:We conducted a retrospective cohor...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Kurdyak P,Vigod S,Duchen R,Jacob B,Stukel T,Kiran T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychological intervention studies designed to reduce cardiac morbidity are reviewed. Preliminary findings suggest that various psychotherapeutic modalities may be effective. Such studies also provide an avenue through which the physical and psychological mechanisms involved in coronary heart disease and their interac...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Frank KA,Heller SS,Kornfeld DS

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the frequency with which general hospitals with inpatient psychiatric units provide psychiatric emergency, outpatient, and partial hospital care. An analysis is presented of data from the 1988 American Hospital Association Annual Survey of Hospitals focusing on the number and proportion of general ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Olfson M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A liaison rounds is presented, one attended by all members of a consultation-liaison (C-L) team along with the medical director of a burn unit. This structure is designated as a "reverse liaison rounds," as it is the opposite of the conventional liaison meeting, which consists of one C-L consultant and the total nonps...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Billowitz A,Schubert DS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization review (UR), Quality Assurance (QA), and Peer Review (PR) have become essential aspects in the practice of general hospital psychiatry. This article first defines and elaborates the basic elements of UR, QA, and PR and then outlines the development of a program for these professionally initiated and mainta...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Sederer LI

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The prevalence of depression in multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to be elevated, but nearly all available studies have estimated period prevalence. The objective of this study was to estimate the point prevalence of depression in a representative community sample using the Patient Health Questionnaire, Brief ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Viner R,Fiest KM,Bulloch AG,Williams JV,Lavorato DH,Berzins S,Jetté N,Metz LM,Patten SB

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes and evaluates the adequacy of sociodemographic and clinical descriptors as potential predictors of unplanned discharge from and completion of psychiatric day treatment programs. A 2-year retrospective chart review was completed on all patients (N = 327) attending three university-affiliated day tr...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Gillis K,Russell VR,Busby K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of dietary vitamin B12 deficiency in a patient with multiple sclerosis. A simple schemata for evaluating patients for vitamin B12 deficiency is included as a clinical aid for physicians. ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Gruener DM,Kunkel EJ,Snyderman DA,Infante MR,Rodgers C,Field HL

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of growing concern has been the phenomenon of psychoactive chemicals legally marketed as a variety of products such as "bath salts" or "herbal incense." There is little in the formal literature about actual adverse effects of such chemicals. We have two cases of a paranoid psychosis in individuals consuming methylened...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Antonowicz JL,Metzger AK,Ramanujam SL

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric consultant is dependent upon the consultee for the implementation of many of his or her recommendations. Therefore, research as to the fate of recommendations suggested to the consultee is of eminent importance. The concordance (performing a suggested recommendation) paradigm, as developed by Popkin et...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Huyse FJ,Strain JJ,Hammer JS

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most low-income minority women do not obtain screening mammography on a regular basis. Compliance with recommended breast cancer screening guidelines may be even lower in women with psychiatric illnesses. We investigated compliance with breast cancer screening guidelines among 121 ethnically diverse low-income women r...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Friedman LC,Moore A,Webb JA,Puryear LJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Issues of suicidal ideation, life-threatening behavior, and vulnerability in cancer patients are addressed. A review of pertinent literature is presented, including the areas of: suicide as a taboo topic; incidence of suicide in cancer patients; identifying patients' suicide potential; and suicide as coping behavior. ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Forman BF

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this analysis was to examine the effect of benzodiazepine use during pregnancy on maternal and neonatal outcomes in a cohort of women with psychiatric disorders. METHODS:794 evaluable women from the Massachusetts General Hospital National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric Medications were follow...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Freeman MP,Góez-Mogollón L,McInerney KA,Davies AC,Church TR,Sosinsky AZ,Noe OB,Viguera AC,Cohen LS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrater reliability and validity of brief interview rated measures of psychosocial adjustment were examined in four sequential studies. A total of 25 videotaped interviews with cancer patients were rated by 105 social workers, nurses, physicians, and specialists in psychosocial oncology. The Rating of Psychosoc...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Morrow GR,Feldstein M,Adler LM,Derogatis LR,Enelow AJ,Gates C,Holland J,Melisaratos N,Murawski BJ,Penman D,Schmale A,Schmitt M,Morse I

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although dialysis discontinuation is the second leading "cause" of death among individuals who are maintained with chronic dialysis, little attention is accorded in the literature to patient ambivalence with this crucial decision. Three cases are presented of clinical situations involving termination of dialysis and a...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Cohen LM,Fischel S,Germain M,Woods A,Braden GL,McCue J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) consistently demonstrate high patterns of utilization in both mental health and non-psychiatric settings. However, utilization of primary care physicians by these individuals has not been examined. In this study, we examined physician use patterns and hyp...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Sansone RA,Farukhi S,Wiederman MW

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Special observation (the allocation of nurses to watch over nominated patients) is a method of preventing patients harming themselves. This study assessed the relationship between constant special observation (keeping a patient within eyesight or reach) and rates of self-harm on acute psychiatric wards. METH...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Stewart D,Bowers L,Warburton F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Catatonia is classically associated with psychiatric conditions but may occur in medical and neurologic disorders. Status epilepticus (SE) is a seizure lasting more than five minutes or two or more seizures within a five-minute period without interictal recovery of consciousness. Non-convulsive status epil...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Volle DC,Marder KG,McKeon A,Brooks JO,Kruse JL

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychosocial skills of 24 PGY I medical residents receiving psychiatric training every other week during the internship year were evaluated and compared to a control group of 13 PGY I residents. After the internship year, the psychiatrically trained residents showed an increase in their ability to recognize emotio...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： von Ammon Cavanaugh S,Kennedy S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the effects of limited time and high patient pressures on the role of gender and other nonpsychiatric factors in diagnostic decision making in psychiatric emergency services (PES). METHODS:We reviewed the records of 1236 adult psychiatric patients treated by 75 clinicians (e.g., psychiatrists...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Muroff JR,Jackson JS,Mowbray CT,Himle JA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and paliperidone (PLP) can induce, though infrequently, severe cardiac side-effects. Thus far, no studies are available on the cardiac safety of their co-administration. We report on the cardiac safety of the ECT-PLP combination in nine female inpatients who underwent this treatmen...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Masdrakis VG,Tzanoulinos G,Markatou M,Oulis P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine those patients referred to psychiatry for the "problem of coping," a structured clinical databased management system--MICRO-CARES--was employed to identify the frequency, demographic characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, psychosocial interventions, use of psychopharmacology, number of follow-up visits, an...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Strain J,Hammer JS,Huertas D,Lam HT,Fulop G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a common disorder in the primary care setting; it is associated with considerable distress and dysfunction. The management of depressed primary care patients can be complicated by the fact that these patients may lack insight into the cause of their symptoms and report only the somatic manifestations of ...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Brody DS,Thompson TL 2nd,Larson DB,Ford DE,Katon WJ,Magruder KM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Demoralization, a state of lowered morale and poor coping, has a prevalence of 13-18% among patients with advanced cancer. We surveyed clinicians' perspectives of the utility of "with demoralization" as a diagnostic specifier for adjustment and depressive disorders. METHOD:Using comparative clinical vignette...

journal_title：General hospital psychiatry

authors： Kissane DW,Bobevski I,Gaitanis P,Brooker J,Michael N,Lethborg C,Richardson G,Webster P,Hempton C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00