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Psychiatric Emergency Services in a Canadian City: II. Clinical Characteristics and Patients' Disposition

Published:1992-03 Issue:2 Volume:37 Page:96-99
ISSN:0706-7437
Container-title:The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
language:en
Short-container-title:Can J Psychiatry

Author:

Oyewumi L.K.¹²,Odejide O.³,Kazarian S.S.⁴

Affiliation:

1. Clinical Evaluation Unit, London Psychiatric Hospital, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

2. Saskatoon City Hospital and Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

3. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

4. Psychology Department, London Psychiatric Hospital, Departments of Psychology (Adjunct) and Psychiatry (Part-Time), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Abstract

The clinical characteristics of patients seen at the psychiatric emergency facilities in a Canadian city and the determinants of decisions regarding their treatment were investigated. A total of 544 patients who sought psychiatric emergency services from the three hospitals in Saskatoon during a three month period were studied. Cognitive disturbance, past psychiatric history, previous psychiatric hospitalization and diagnoses of substance use disorders, affective disorders, anxiety disorders and schizophrenic disorders were associated with psychiatric emergencies. Psychiatric diagnoses and availability of social support were significantly associated with disposition. The implications of these findings for psychiatric emergency services are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/070674379203700204

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