Emergency physician practices and requirements regarding the medical screening examination of psychiatric patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 88-92

  Salerno, Killian ^a   Fraser, Emily ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a   McCourt, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b University Medical Center of Southern Nevada   (United States)

Author keywords

Clearance; Emergency; Mandatory; Medical; Psychiatric; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; TRAINING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036143707     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.9.1.88     Document Type: Article

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