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An adolescent psychiatric unit for difficult medical patients
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital, Denver, Colorado 80218.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
While the combined psychiatric and medical treatment of patients is highly desirable, such treatment of more complex medical patients in a psychiatric milieu has been difficult to accomplish. This paper describes the creation of and experience with a psychiatric unit for adolescents with both difficult medical and psychiatric problems. Useful aspects of the structure of such a unit are discussed, and case examples are presented.