Waiting room crowding and agitation in a dedicated psychiatric emergency service

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 140-142

  El Mallakh, Rif S ^a   Whiteley, Amanda ^b   Wozniak, Tanya ^c   Ashby, McCray ^c   Brown, Shawn ^d   Colbert Trowel, Danya ^a   Pennington, Tammy ^c   Thompson, Michael ^c   Tasnin, Rokeya ^a   Terrell, Christina L ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Seven Counties Services Inc   (United States)

^c River City Psychiatry   (United States)

^d Louisville Behavioral Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; WAITING ROOM;

CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; KENTUCKY; PATIENT ISOLATION; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84865223959     PISSN: 10401237     EISSN: 15473325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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