PubMed · 3557350
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The authors try to define the notion of psychiatric emergency "pathology covering a whole line of situations characterized by their particularly acute and dramatic behaviors, their constant dealing with human relations, the high frequency of acting out and their usually rapid resolutions" (translated from Védrinne). They make a brief overview of french psychiatric emergencies departments organization in France either in psychiatric hospitals or in general hospitals. They report the Nancy psychiatric emergencies room's experience, which was born in 1987 and is based on an agreement between the psychiatric "secteurs" and the general hospital. This agreement provides psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses 24h/24, working in a psychiatric room within the medical emergencies department. This experience agrees with the recent french law about psychiatric emergencies.
Studies of clinical cognitive screening tests began in the 1960s, and ten instruments have been reported in the English literature. In this study, we have compared the widely used Mini-Mental State Examination developed by Folstein with a reportedly enhanced version, the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination devised by Teng, using a sample of 250 patients (inpatients, outpatients, emergency). We have come to the conclusion that the modifications brought about by Teng result in a minor improvement of the validity of the Mini-Mental State Examination in a psychiatric patients in a general hospital.