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Self-referral admissions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Martin Gee  and
Nick Craddock
Martin Gee
Affiliation:
Substance Abuse Unit (Ward 93), City General Hospital, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 6QG
Nick Craddock
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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Little is known about those patients who bypass their GP and self-refer directly to hospital. There have been studies of referrals to emergency clinics (Lim, 1983; Haw et al, 1987; Kehoe & Newton, 1990) and to community centres (Hutton, 1983; Boardman & Bouras, 1989). All these studies found that more men self-referred than women. Hutton (1985), Boardman & Bouras (1989) and Kehoe & Newton (1990) found that self-referrals often had a non-psychiatric precipitant and rarely required acute psychiatric intervention.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 329 - 330
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