Diagnostic Overshadowing and Other Challenges Involved in the Diagnostic Process of Patients with Mental Illness Who Present in Emergency Departments with Physical Symptoms - A Qualitative Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Shefer, Guy ^a   Henderson, Claire ^a   Howard, Louise M ^a   Murray, Joanna ^a   Thornicroft, Graham ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROWDING (AREA); DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LIAISON PSYCHIATRY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STEREOTYPING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; STEREOTYPING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84925099046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111682     Document Type: Article

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