[Referral into the psychiatric clinic. What information must the admitting document contain?]

The importance of certain items of information on a referral in the eyes of the clinicians was determined. Indispensable information was considered to be that on current medication, suicidality/aggressiveness towards others, the present problem, the reasons for referral, drug intolerance, and somatic pathologies. Also considered to be very important items were care provision, prior treatment, history of drug addiction, telephone number of relatives, prior diagnostic measures, psychiatric diagnosis and previous findings.