The British Journal of Psychiatry 153: 243-245 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Psychiatric clinics in different settings. A case register study
CB Low and I Pullen
Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow.
Out-patient referrals to the Edinburgh adult psychiatric service between
1981 and 1985 were studied using the Edinburgh Psychiatric Case Register.
The hypotheses that primary-care clinics have more patients with less
severe illnesses and fewer patients with psychotic illnesses were
confirmed.