PURPOSE The psychiatric home visit is an effective intervention for elderly patients who otherwise would not receive mental health services. Home visits also have potential to be useful for training. Here, the current practice of home visits in geropsychiatry fellowship programs is examined. DESIGN AND METHODS The directors of 55 current geropsychiatry fellowships in the United States were se...

This paper describes the application of evolutionary fuzzy systems for subgroup discovery to a medical problem, the study on the type of patients who tend to visit the psychiatric emergency department in a given period of time of the day. In this problem, the objective is to characterise subgroups of patients according to their time of arrival at the emergency department. To solve this problem,...

Objectives We describe the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)–Clinical Practice Screener’s ability to predict suicide and emergency department (ED) visits for self-harm in year following an ED encounter. Methods Screening data from adult patients’ first encounter during a 27-month study period were analyzed. Patients excluded if they died or left without being identified. The outco...

INTRODUCTION Laboratory and radiographic studies are often required by psychiatric services prior to admitting emergency patients who are otherwise deemed medically stable. Such testing may represent an unnecessary expense that prolongs emergency department stays without significantly improving care. This study determines the prevalence of such testing and how often it leads to changes in care....

OBJECTIVES To determine predictors of emergency department (ED) visits in a cohort of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Community-based study from Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Parents reported on their adult sons and daughters with ASD living in the community (n=284). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES ED visits for any reason, ED v...

OBJECTIVE While psychoeducation has been shown to positively affect outcomes in psychiatric disorders, its utility has been little studied in developing countries. The current study sought to examine the role of psychoeducation at a general psychiatric outpatient clinic in Kampala, Uganda in improving clinic attendance, treatment adherence, and clinical outcomes. METHOD A prospective case-con...