Unwelcome Guests: Bugbears of the Emergency Room Physician

Adityanjee, D. Mohan and N.N. Wig
Additional contact information
Adityanjee: Dept of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences., New Delhi, India
D. Mohan: Dept of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
N.N. Wig: Dept of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1988, vol. 34, issue 3, 196-199

Abstract: In a prospective study on psychiatric emergencies in the setting of a general hospital, the phenomenon of repeat-visits was studied. Results confirm that repeaters repre sent a sizeable load on emergency services—about 18% of all psychiatric emergen cies. Females and neurotics are over-represented among the repeaters. Chronic repeaters tend to evoke strong feelings among the emergency physicians thereby decreasing their chances of referral to the psychiatry resident on call.

Date: 1988
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002076408803400304 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:34:y:1988:i:3:p:196-199

DOI: 10.1177/002076408803400304

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().