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Audit of a psychiatric liaison service – the value of general practice casenotes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sheila M. Curran  and
Ian M. Pullen
Sheila M. Curran
Affiliation:
Registrar in Psychiatry
Ian M. Pullen
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Terrace, Edinburgh EH10 5HF (correspondence)
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The practice of out-patient psychiatry has undergone a number of significant developments in recent years: the number of patients referred by general practitioners has steadily increased: a large number of psychiatrists are now seeing patients in the primary care setting and more patients are being seen on one occasion only.

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Audit in Practice
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 12 , December 1990 , pp. 727 - 729
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