Current practices for mental health follow-up after psychiatric emergency department/psychiatric emergency service visits: A national survey of academic emergency departments

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 631-633

  Boudreaux, Edwin D ^a   Niro, Kathryn ^b   Sullivan, Ashley ^b   Rosenbaum, Christopher D ^a   Allen, Michael ^c   Camargo, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency; Follow up; Outpatient; Psychiatry; Referral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIDIVISM; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82855161369     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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