Screening for somatic disease in elderly psychiatric patients

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 102-107

  Mookhoek, Evert J ^a   Sterrenburg v d Nieuwegiessen, Ineke M ^a  

^a Delta Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; ELECTROLYTE; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; LIVER ENZYME; THYROTROPIN; UREA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; SCREENING TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031967062     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-8343(98)00005-X     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Maguire GP, Granville-Grossman KL. Psychical illness in psychiatric patients. Br J Psychiatry. 115:1968;1365-1369.
2. Koranyi EK. Undiagnosed physical illness in psychiatric patients. Ann Rev Med. 33:1982;309-316.
3. Sheline YI. High prevalence of physical illness in a geriatric psychiatric inpatient population. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 12:1990;396-400.
4. Hall RCW, Gardner ER, Popkin MK, Lecann AF, Stickney SK: Unrecognized physical illness prompting psychiatric admission - a prospective study. Am J Psychiatry 138-5:629-635, 1981.
5. Harms HH, Hermans P. Admission laboratory testing in elderly psychiatric patients without organic mental syndromes - Should it be routine? Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 9:1994;133-140.
6. Anfinson TJ, Kathol RG. Screening laboratory evaluation in psychiatric patients a review . Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 14:1992;248-257.
7. Ferguson B, Dudleston K. Detection of physical disorder in newly admitted psychiatric patients. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 74:1986;485-489.
8. Farmaco-therapeutisch Kompas. 1994;Ziekenfondsraad, Amstelveen/NL.
9. Krupp MA. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment. 1988;Lange Medical Publications, Los Altos California.
10. Sheline Y, Kehr C. Cost and utility of routine admission laboratory testing for psychiatric inpatients. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 12:1990;329-334.
11. Godfrey PSA, Toone BK, Carney MWP, et al. Enhancement of recovery from psychiatric illness by methylfolate. Lancet. 336:1990;392-395.
12. de Rooy S, van Brugge R, Thijssen C, Hooijer C. Een lage serum vitamine B12 spiegel en vitamine B12 deficiëntie bij ouderen Wanneer suppleren? Tijdschr Gerontol Geriatr. 25:1994;3-10.
13. Bell IR, Edman JS, Marby DW, et al. Vitamin B12 and folate status in acute geropsychiatric inpatients affective and cognitive characteristics of a vitamin nondeficient population . Biol Psychiatry. 27:1990;125-137.
14. Smidt LJ, Cremin FM, Grivetti LE, Clifford AJ. Influence of thiamine supplementation on the health and general well-being of an elderly Irish population with marginal thiamine deficiency. J Gerontol. 46:1991;M16-M22.
15. van de Beek EJ, van Dokkum W, Wedel M, et al. Combination of low thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and vitamin C intake among Dutch adults (Dutch nutrition surveillance system). J Am Coll Nutr. 13:1994;383-391.
16. Chandra RK. Effect of vitamin and trace-element supplementation on immune responses and infection in elderly subjects. Lancet. 340:1992;1124-1127.
17. Brown M. An audit of the use of chest radiography in the elderly mentally ill. Int J Ger Psychiatry. 10:1995;155-158.
18. Mookhoek EJ, Sterrenburg CM. Annual laboratory screening for chronic hospitalized elderly psychiatric patients - habit or necessity. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry. 11:1996;477-481.
19. Colgan J, Philpot M. The routine use of investigations in elderly psychiatric patients. Age Ageing. 14:1985;163-167.