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. 2013 Sep;74(9):492, 494-6.
doi: 10.12968/hmed.2013.74.9.492.

'The patient is medically cleared'

Chloe Beale  1 , Trevor Turner
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'The patient is medically cleared'

Chloe Beale et al. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2013 Sep.

Abstract

It is standard practice for psychiatric nurses and junior doctors working in emergency departments to ask that patients be 'medically cleared' before psychiatric admission or even assessment. However, there is a lack of agreement over what this process should entail.

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