Walk-in Clinic and Diagnostic Stability

Raman Khosla, Sumant Khanna and S.M. Channabasavanna

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1987, vol. 33, issue 4, 294-298

Abstract: One hundred and six consecutively seen psychiatric patients who had undergone detailed evaluation had their diagnosis compared with that arrived at in a walk-in evaluation one week to one month prior to the index evaluation. There was a diagnostic change in 21 cases and a change in drugs in 14. The pitfalls of this method for administering rapid efficient psychiatric care in countries with inadequate psychiatric manpower are highlighted.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408703300406

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