Comparison between Swiss and foreign patients characteristics at the psychiatric emergencies department and the predictive factors of their management strategies;Étude comparative des caractéristiques sociodémographiques et des facteurs prédictifs de soins de patients Suisses et étrangers consultant un service d'urgences psychiatriques

Encephale

Volumn 29, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 205-212

  Baleydier, B ^a   Damsa, C ^a   Schutzbach, C ^b   Stauffer, O ^b   Glauser, D ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Foreigners; Psychiatric emergencies; Social demographic characteristics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOOD DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; SWITZERLAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0037773393     PISSN: 00137006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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