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Providing a psychiatric service to liver transplant patients

The first 2 years of the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John R. Mitchell ,
Fiona H. Lang  and
George Masterton
John R. Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Morningside Terrace, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH 10 5HF
Fiona H. Lang
Affiliation:
MRC Health Services Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
George Masterton
Affiliation:
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
*
∗Correspondence
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The Scottish Liver Transplantation Unit (SLTU) opened in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in November 1992. We describe the liaison psychiatric input during its first 23 months. Sixty-five patients were seen from 69 referrals and their case notes were studied retrospectively to obtain information on patient demographics and details of each psychiatric involvement. A high level of psychiatric morbidity was found and psychiatric opinion contributed to the transplant assessment procedure. Our results indicate the need for good liaison psychiatric input with subsequent resource implications.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 6 - 9
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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