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A G Mezey

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PubMed1976

Community care and the prognosis of schizophrenia.

A group of 41 schizophrenic patients were followed up for a period of up to 8 1/2 years after their first admission to a general hospital psychiatric unit. During the follow-up period one third of the patients were not readmitted, and the remainder had between one and eight readmissions. Half of the patients spent less than 5 % of the follow-up period in hospital. Twenty-one patients remained in fairly close contact with at least one of the community services. A greater degree of clinical disturbance characterized high users, as compared with low users, of these services. At the end of the follow-up two patients were in hospital, half of the original cohort was considered clinically recovered and four-fifths socially recovered. The contribution of the general hospital and of the community services to the improved prognosis for schizophrenia is disucssed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1970

Attitudes to psychiatry in the general hospital.

A survey of consultant attitudes to psychiatry in six general hospitals is presented and compared with reported findings in general practitioners and medical students.Psychological factors were accepted as important in a variety of medical conditions. Different specialties differed little in their attitudes to neurotic patients and to psychiatrists, younger consultants tending to be more critical. Consultants had a lower level of neuroticism than the general population and medical students, and physicians were less extraverted than surgeons; these personality factors were not related to expressed attitudes.The results suggest that other specialties accept the role of psychiatry, and its integration into the general hospital is not likely to meet with antagonism.

Adult↗
PubMed1968

The elderly in the wrong unit.

Patients over 65 admitted from an area of North London forming the overlapping part of the catchment areas of a geriatric unit and a psychiatric unit were studied, with particular reference to misplacement in the inappropriate hospitals service and its consequences.The incidence of misplacement found was much lower than previously reported. In the geriatric unit 2.2% of admissions were definitely and 6.0% were probably misplaced. In the psychiatric unit 6.2% were definitely and a further 8.4% were probably misplaced. Misplacement did not materially affect the outcome. The striking differences that were found between the patterns of death and discharge in the geriatric and psychiatric units were determined principally by the type of illness leading to admission.The frequent coexistence of mental and physical disorders in the elderly patient, which this study confirms, indicates the need for further development of effective liaison at a local level between the geriatric, psychiatric, and social services.

Aged↗