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The Impact of a Liaison Psychiatry Service on Patterns of Referral in a General Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Brown  and
A. F. Cooper
A. Brown*
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow
A. F. Cooper
Affiliation:
Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow
*
∗Department of Child Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3
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Abstract

A retrospective study of psychiatric referrals from a general hospital inpatient population was carried out for three separate years, 1973, 1976 and 1979. Reorganisation of the liaison service to the responsibility of one consultant team was associated with changes in referral rate and disposal. In particular, there was a significant increase in the referral rate of patients from medical and surgical wards who were not involved in acts of deliberate self-harm.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 83 - 87
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Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Footnotes

Present address: Senior Registrar and Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Tavistock Clinic and Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3

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