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Psychogeriatric Liaison: A Service to a District General Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. M. Fraser  and
Rosemary Healy
R. M. Fraser
Affiliation:
University College Hospital, London
Rosemary Healy
Affiliation:
University College Hospital, London
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Liaison psychiatry has been an influential element in hospital psychiatric practice for over a decade now. It is concerned with the ‘diagnosis, treatment, study, and prevention of psychiatric disorders among patients in non-psychiatric health care institutions, especially in general hospitals’. This paper describes and evaluates a project in which the principles of liaison psychiatry were incorporated into a psychogeriatric service.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 11 , November 1986 , pp. 312 - 314
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

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