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Nurse-led liaison psychiatry service for older adults
— service evaluation | | Author(s) | Daniel Anderson, Howard Cattell, Elaine Bentley |
| Journal title | Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 32, no 8, August 2008 |
| Pages | pp 298-302 |
| Source | http://pb.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Psychiatric nurses ; Psychiatric treatment ; Referrals ; Evaluation ; Wrexham. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to comprehensively describe a nurse-led consultation liaison service for older adults at Wrexham Maelor Hospital by retrospectively reviewing all referrals received in 2006 and comparing them against other services and benchmark reports. Of the 298 individuals referred to psychiatric services from other hospital wards, 120 were aged 85-94 years old (40%), 193 were male (65%), and 152 were referred from geriatrics (51%). A majority of 204 have not had previous contact with psychiatric services (69%). The most common diagnosis was dementia (33%, n=88), with 65 individuals (27%) being referred onwards to secondary care. This nurse-led service, using a novel approach of a support worker providing further community support, functions well compared with traditional consultation models. It helps identify many individuals with dementia and engages them into community psychiatric services. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819211 A |
| Classmark | QTK: LP: L5R: 4C: 92G |
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