Characteristics of Patients Referred to Psychiatrists for Competency Evaluations
| Autor: | J P Fedoroff, Ronald C. Golinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty Neurocognitive Disorders MEDLINE Hospitals General Population control Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Organic mental disorders Forensic psychiatry medicine Humans General hospital Cognitive impairment Psychiatry Referral and Consultation Applied Psychology Aged Informed Consent business.industry Forensic Psychiatry Middle Aged Control subjects medicine.disease United States Psychiatry and Mental health Family medicine Dementia business |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatics. 30:296-299 |
| ISSN: | 0033-3182 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0033-3182(89)72275-1 |
| Popis: | Requests for inpatient psychiatric consultations at a general hospital over a three-year period were reviewed. Of 2,423 referrals, 79 (3.3%) were specifically for evaluation of competency, and 78.5% of those cases resulted in a diagnosis of an organic mental disorder. The proportion of referrals with organic mental disorder was significantly greater than it was in a control population of patients referred for consultation for any reason. Patients with organic mental disorder who were referred for competency evaluation had greater cognitive impairment than did control subjects. |
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