Abstract.Background: In the United Kingdom, suicide risk is assessed in the emergency department (ED) in a face-to-face assessment with psychiatric liaison practitioners. This study aimed to explore patient experiences of psychosocial assessment after ...
Background: Patients admitted to hospital because of self-harm should receive psychosocial assessment before discharge. In practice many of these assessments in the United Kingdom and elsewhere are undertaken by trainee rather than specialist ...
Geriatric PsychiatryAbstract. Psychiatry of old age represents the part of psychiatry with the closest links to the rest of somatic medicine. Several central diagnostic and therapeutic topics with growing importance are summarized in the volume: ...