Evaluation of Referred Psychiatry Consultations at an Education Hospital

Volume: 16 Number: 1 March 1, 2008
  • Murat Kuloğlu
  • Ali Çaykölü
  • Soydaş Akyolesra
  • Aslıhan İbiloğlu
  • Elif Yılmaz
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Evaluation of Referred Psychiatry Consultations at an Education Hospital

Abstract

In this study, we examined the distributionof the referred psychiatry consultations according to the patients’ sociodemographic features,the clinic concultations received from, reasonsof the concultations, the psychiatric diagnosesand the attitudes of the patients and the physicians in an education hospital. The study groupconsist of the consulted in and outpatients(n=545) who have been treated in the clinicsother than psychiatry, between January-August2007 in Ankara Atatürk Education and ResearchHospital. The concultations most frequent received from are the internal medicine and neurology departments. The most frequent cause ofrequirement of the concultations is psychiatricexamination without any spesific reason. Anxiety and depressive disorders are the most common disorders diagnosed after psychiatric evaluation. At the and of the study, we found out theresults that emphasized the importance of psychiatric consultation in diagnosed and treatmentof patient evaluated in other clinics

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Turkish

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Authors

Murat Kuloğlu This is me

Ali Çaykölü This is me

Soydaş Akyolesra This is me

Aslıhan İbiloğlu This is me

Elif Yılmaz This is me

Publication Date

March 1, 2008

Submission Date

March 1, 2008

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Year 2008 Volume: 16 Number: 1

APA
Kuloğlu, M., Çaykölü, A., Akyolesra, S., İbiloğlu, A., & Yılmaz, E. (2008). Bir Eğitim Hastanesinde İstenen Psikiyatri Konsültasyonlarının Değerlendirilmesi. Kriz Dergisi, 16(1), 19-24. https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000279