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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 116: 545-550. doi: 10.1192/bjp.116.534.545
© 1970 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Physical Status of Psychiatric Emergencies

M. R. EASTWOOD M.B., Ch.B., D.P.M.1, R. H. S. MINDHAM M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P.E., D.C.H., D.P.M.1, and T. G. TENNENT M.A., B.M., B.Ch., D.P.M.2

1 Research Worker, Institute of Psychiatry, London S.E.5
2 Consultant in Clinical Research to the Special Hospitals

A hundred consecutive new patients attending a psychiatric emergency clinic were examined both psychiatrically and physically. Sixty per cent were found to be physically fit, 24 per cent were suffering from physical disorders already known to their general practitioner, and 16 per cent had physical abnormalities which had not been previously recognized. The patients in the last group fell into a variety of psychiatric categories and were not identifiable from demographic data. All their physical conditions could have been either suspected from the history or discovered by a small number of simple screening tests. If the findings in this study are representative of psychiatric out-patients generally, screening tests would be a valuable measure where full physical examination is not possible. We therefore suggest that they be carried out routinely in such circumstances.

Submitted on December 24, 1968




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