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Psychiatric consultation in a teaching nursing home
1Consultation-Liasion Service, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.
Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The first 60 psychiatric consultations provided to a university-affiliated teaching nursing home are reviewed. All patients seen had a diagnosable mental disorder, and over 40% suffered from major affective illness. Consultation resulted in a critical change in diagnosis and management in more than one-third of patients. The authors discuss the benefits and drawbacks of psychiatric consultation for nursing home patients, staff physicians, and the psychiatrists themselves.