Treatment of Psychiatric Hospital Patients Transferred to Emergency Departments
Copyright policy )Treatment of Psychiatric Hospital Patients Transferred to Emergency Departments
Two hundred public psychiatric hospitals were surveyed regarding their management of inpatients with serious medical problems. Of the 102 hospitals responding, 98 had a formal arrangement with a medical facility for transfer and treatment. Fifty of the respondents felt they regularly had difficulty in receiving acceptable information from the receiving hospital, and 37 perceived that their patients regularly received less than optimal care. There was a significant direct correlation between difficulty obtaining information and the perception of suboptimal care. Seventy-nine hospitals had developed a referral form for the transfer of information to the receiving facility. The results point to an important area of discontinuity in the care of the seriously mentally ill.
- University of Massachusetts Medical School United States
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital United States
- Boston University United States
- Boston College United States
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Hospitals, Psychiatric, Patient Transfer, *Patient Transfer, Quality Assurance, Health Care, Attitude of Health Personnel, Interprofessional Relations, Pilot Projects, *Hospitals, Hospital, Patient Admission, *Emergency Service, Medicine and Health Sciences, Humans, *Patient Admission, Hospitals, Public, Data Collection, Mental Disorders, Life Sciences, Public, Continuity of Patient Care, Hospitals, Health Care, *Quality Assurance, *Interprofessional Relations, Acute Disease, Psychiatric, Forms and Records Control, Medical Record Linkage, Emergency Service, Hospital
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