scholarly journals ‘The Health of the Nation’, suicide and the general hospital doctor

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Y. Elwood ◽  
P. De Silva
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Hospital Doctor ◽  
Current Contact ◽  
Hospital Contact

Records were obtained of all suicide and open verdicts in York (n=127) between 1990–1994 inclusive. Those with no past or current contact with psychiatric services were identified (n=67). The extent and nature of this group's general (i.e. non-psychiatric) hospital contact in the months prior to death was established. Thirteen per cent (9/67) of these received general hospital input in the month before death with eight out of the nine aged over 65. Five of the 67 suicides showed evidence of depression. General hospital practitioners are in a position to make a small but important contribution in reducing the suicide rate.

Patients of immigrant origin in inpatient psychiatric facilities

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. s21-s27 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schouler-Ocak ◽  
H.J. Bretz ◽  
S. Penka ◽  
E. Koch ◽  
N. Hartkamp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
German Population ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
And Migration ◽  
To Receive

AbstractIn a representative nationwide survey, the Psychiatry and Migration Working Group of the German Federal Conference of Psychiatric Hospital Directors (Bundesdirektorenkonferenz) examined the use of inpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services in Germany by patients of immigrant origin. Questionnaires were sent to a total of 350 general hospital psychiatric clinics throughout Germany, and 131 clinics responded. As shown by the 2005 Microcensus [22], almost one-fifth (18.6%) of the German population is of immigrant origin. In our study, persons of immigrant origin comprised 17% of patients in the responding facilities. This indicates that the percentage of inpatient psychiatric services used by patients of immigrant origin is almost proportionate to these patients’ percentage of the general population. The largest group of immigrant patients in our study were those of Russian heritage, followed by patients of Turkish, Arabic, or other origin. Almost two-thirds of the immigrant patients were born in Germany, and a considerably larger percentage were German citizens (74%). Sixty-two per cent of all patients of immigrant origin spoke a language other than German (e.g. Russian, Turkish, Polish) at home. Patients of immigrant origin were significantly more likely to receive an ICD-10 F2 diagnosis, and it was precisely patients with this diagnosis who were observed to experience difficulties in communication with caregivers.

New unit on old ground or general hospital — where do patients want inpatient treatment?

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-131
Author(s):  
Declan Lyons ◽  
Onsi Abd El Sayed ◽  
VM Matthew
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Inpatient Treatment ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Inpatient Unit ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Large Institution

AbstractObjectives: To establish if the relocation of the acute adult psychiatric services of the Dartford area from a district general hospital (DGH) to a new unit in the grounds of Stone House Hospital, the large institution where they were formerly based, increased the stigma of receiving inpatient treatment.Method: A brief survey of service users asked if this move near to, but not within, the old institution potentially increased the stigma of receiving inpatient treatment.Results: Inpatients initially welcomed the move but expressed greater concern about stigma and on balance were substantially less enthused than outpatients about the move to a separate psychiatric hospital.Conclusions: Moving an inpatient unit back to the vicinity of a large institution from a DGH setting is rare, however concerns about consequent stigma, particularly felt by inpatients merits early consideration at planning stages.

Acute Psychiatric Services in the General Hospital: II. Current Status of Emergency Psychiatric Services

1967 ◽  
Vol 124 (4S) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOWARD T. BLANE ◽  
JAMES J. MULLER ◽  
MORRIS E. CHAFETZ
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Current Status

Suicide Prevention

1992 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Community Care ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Local District ◽  
Health Centres

In 1989 a crisis occurred in a West Country seaside town. Its psychiatric services had been regarded as a vanguard of community care, having been fully established some three years previously when the in-patient facilities which had been based in a mental hospital some 15 miles away were closed. The framework of the new-style service consisted of five mental health centres scattered throughout the residential area and a 60-bed in-patient unit, based in the grounds of the local district general hospital.

Patch Testing Results From the Massachusetts General Hospital Contact Dermatitis Clinic, 2007–2016

Dermatitis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-208
Author(s):  
Idy Tam ◽  
Peter C. Schalock ◽  
Ernesto González ◽  
JiaDe Yu
Keyword(s):  
Contact Dermatitis ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Patch Testing ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Hospital Contact

General Hospital Doctor

BMJ ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 1 (5395) ◽  
pp. 1442-1443
Author(s):  
P. M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
Hospital Doctor
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