Review of Geriatric psychiatry: A handbook for psychiatrists and primary care physicians.

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 531-531
Author(s):  
FRANCES M. CARP
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Geriatric Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry at the Interface of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Primary Care

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Oxman
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Geriatric Psychiatry ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Clinical Activity ◽  
Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Primary Care Site ◽  
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatry Program ◽  
Successful Collaboration

Objective: This article describes the evolution of a primary care geriatric psychiatry program which serves clinical, educational, and research functions. Methods: Program development proceeded through stages of liaison using research, focusing on primary care attendings, and developing the common interest of geriatrics. Results: Collaborative research with external funding has continued. A geriatric psychiatry primary care fellowship program was established. Clinical activity is based on consultation-liaison work in nursing homes, an outpatient dementia clinic, a general hospital medical service, and the outpatient clinic. Fellows are involved in training both psychiatry and primary care residents. Conclusions: Necessary components of a successful collaboration include: 1) primary care physicians with an interest in and aptitude for psychiatric issues; 2) delivery of service and training based on an assessment of the primary care site's needs; 3) a physical presence in the primary care site.

Geriatric Psychiatry Patients’ Care by Primary Care Physicians

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy L. Thompson II ◽  
Wayne D. Mitchell ◽  
Robert M. House
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Geriatric Psychiatry

Fool’s Gold: Psychologists Using Disingenuous Reasoning to Mislead Legislatures into Granting Psychologists Prescriptive Authority

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-524
Author(s):  
Brent Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Prescriptive Authority

Mental illness is a serious problem in the United States. Based on “current epidemiological estimates, at least one in five people has a diagnosable mental disorder during the course of a year.” Fortunately, many of these disorders respond positively to psychotropic medications. While psychiatrists write some of the prescriptions for psychotropic medications, primary care physicians write more of them. State legislatures, seeking to expand patient access to pharmacological treatment, granted physician assistants and nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications. Over the past decade other groups have gained some form of prescriptive authority. Currently, psychologists comprise the primary group seeking prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications.The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (“ASAP”), a division of the American Psychological Association (“APA”), spearheads the drive for psychologists to gain prescriptive authority. The American Psychological Association offers five main reasons why legislatures should grant psychologists this privilege: 1) psychologists’ education and clinical training better qualify them to diagnose and treat mental illness in comparison with primary care physicians; 2) the Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project (“PDP”) demonstrated non-physician psychologists can prescribe psychotropic medications safely; 3) the recommended post-doctoral training requirements adequately prepare psychologists to prescribe safely psychotropic medications; 4) this privilege will increase availability of mental healthcare services, especially in rural areas; and 5) this privilege will result in an overall reduction in medical expenses, because patients will visit only one healthcare provider instead of two–one for psychotherapy and one for medication.

1566: BPH Management in an HMO Setting: Differences between Primary Care Physicians and Urologists

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 517-517
Author(s):  
John M. Hollingsworth ◽  
Stephanie Daignault ◽  
Brent K. Hollenbeck ◽  
John T. Wei
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians

Abstract #81: Osteoporosis Screening by Primary Care Physicians in an Inner City Teaching Hospital in Brooklyn

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Vaidehi Kaza ◽  
Eric A. Jaffe ◽  
Gerald Posner ◽  
Maria Ferandez-Renedo ◽  
Zewge S. Deribe
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Osteoporosis Screening
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