Enhancing patient safety and resident education during the academic year-end transfer of outpatients: Lessons from the suicide of a psychiatric patient

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-57

  Young, John Q ^a   Eisendrath, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT TRANSFER; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRY; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79955081886     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.35.1.54     Document Type: Article

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