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Publikováno v:
Mental Handicap Research. 8:184-193
Psychotropic prescribing was surveyed over an 18-year period in an intellectual disability hospital between 1972 and 1990. The number of inpatients fell from 605 to 242 but the proportion receiving psychotropic drugs rose from 33% to 47% widi an incr
Publikováno v:
International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 12(6)
The Tayside Profile for Dementia Planning is an instrument designed to obtain data for population needs assessment and planning. It provides a brief tool to collect a minimum dataset by non-specialists. Third-party informants-informal carers or invol
Publikováno v:
British Journal of Psychiatry. 150:513-517
The prescription sheets for all patients in a mental handicap hospital on one day in 1972 and on the same date in 1982 were examined to identify trends in anticonvulsant medication over a 10-year period. There was a reduction in size of the hospital
Autor:
B. R. Ballinger
Publikováno v:
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 70:400-403
– Referrals of elderly patients with organic brain syndromes to a Geriatric Psychiatry Service were studied before and after the introduction of a Day Hospital. The Day Hospital was used for more patients than predicted and was perceived to be of b
Publikováno v:
Age and Ageing. 7:74-82
A cross-sectional one-day survey of drug prescribing and use in elderly in-patients was carried out in Dundee hospitals. Altogether 873 patients were studied and analyses of prescribing patterns were carried out by patient categories--medical, surgic
Publikováno v:
Psychological Medicine. 10:555-557
SYNOPSISThe relationship between herpes simplex virus type 1 and mental retardation is explored by studying the antibody levels to this virus in a group of 86 severely and profoundly retarded adults. A tendency towards higher antibody levels is found
Autor:
B R Ballinger, N Hockings
Publikováno v:
BMJ. 286:1949-1951
Anxiolytics Anxiety is a normal reaction but when severe and disabling it becomes pathological. Phobias are distinguished from anxiety, and some classifications also separate panic attacks. Patients should be assessed carefully to detect associated p
Publikováno v:
Health bulletin. 38(1)
Publikováno v:
Age and ageing. 16(1)
Structured physical and psychiatric assessments were performed on 100 elderly women with dementia admitted to either a geriatric or a geriatric psychiatry unit, and the relationship between physical and mental factors and the ability to transfer was