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Psychiatry in the Casualty Department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. H. Anstee*
Affiliation:
Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent, and Guy's Hospital, London, S.E.1

Extract

Few papers have been published on psychiatric disorders presenting in casualty departments. Such a study was last reported at Guy's Hospital in 1960 by Blackwell and Mallett. The present report deals with those psychiatric cases who attended the same casualty department during a recent period of twelve months.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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References

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