Agreement between emergency physicians and psychiatrists regarding admission decisions

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1027-1030

  Garbrick, Lisa ^a   Levitt, M Andrew ^a   Barrett, Michelle ^b   Graham, Leslie ^a  

^a ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*

Author keywords

admission decision; concordance; emergency psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029807946     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03348.x     Document Type: Article

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