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. 1988 Autumn;34(3):196-9.
doi: 10.1177/002076408803400304.

Unwelcome guests: bugbears of the emergency room physician

Adityanjee  1 , D Mohan, N N Wig
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Unwelcome guests: bugbears of the emergency room physician

Adityanjee et al. Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1988 Autumn.

Abstract

In a prospective study on psychiatric emergencies in the setting of a general hospital, the phenomenon of repeat-visits was studied. Results confirm that repeaters represent a sizeable load on emergency services--about 18% of all psychiatric emergencies. Females and neurotics are over-represented among the repeaters. Chronic repeaters tend to evoke strong feelings among the emergency physicians thereby decreasing their chances of referral to the psychiatry resident on call.

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