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Doctors and nurses
— referrals by general practitioners to different arms of an old age psychiatry service | | Author(s) | Chris Ball, Mike Payne, Eugene Lewis |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 11, no 11, November 1996 |
| Pages | pp 995-999 |
| Keywords | Referrals ; General practitioners ; Psychiatric treatment. |
| Annotation | General practitioners' referrals to the medical and nursing arms of an old age psychiatry service over a 6-month period were examined retrospectively. Doctors were referred patients with a past psychiatric history who had been known to the service, did not live alone, and in whom first-line treatments had failed. The nursing team were asked to carry out specific therapies by the GPs. There were no differences in support, diagnosis or medication between the groups. The need for multidisciplinary input to all referrals to services is stressed. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970421020 A |
| Classmark | L5R: QT6: LP |
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