Two years of psychogeriatric consultations in a nursing home: Reasons for referral compared to psychiatrists' assessment

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Callegari, Camilla M T ^a   Menchetti, Marco ^b   Croci, Giovanni ^a   Beraldo, Scilla ^a   Costantini, Chiara ^a   Baranzini, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GABAPENTIN; MOOD STABILIZER; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NURSING HOME; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOGERIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL AUDIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HOME FOR THE AGED; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING AUDIT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RESTLESSNESS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING AUDIT; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES;

EID: 33746733086     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-73     Document Type: Article

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