General physicians often act as gatekeepers responsible for initiating mental health treatments themselves and for deciding whom to triage for specialty care.70,71 Increasing awareness of mental disorders on the part of primary care physicians, coupled with an increase in consumer demand stimulated by ...
Whatever the case may be, apparently she wrote to several officials, including the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and possibly the Department of Protection and Advocacy ( which dumped me completely after assuring Susan Stefan, Atty at law known for her work against se...
Triage is a well-established term in somatic medicine for assessing urgency and the process of determining clinical needs, but it is used less in mental health services. The assessment of who should be offered specialised treatment is traditionally based on a written referral from the general pract...
Research in emergencies is needed to understand the prevalence of mental health and psychosocial problems and strengthen the evidence base for interventions. All research - including operational needs assessments, programme monitoring and evaluation, and
Moreover, those patients who are referred from the triage to other medical clinics because of poor triaging are referred back to the psychiatric clinic if health professionals working in other disciplines suspect the presence of psychiatric problems in the patient. Patients with suicidal attempts are...
University-based mental health services for medical students remain a challenge, particularly in low-income countries, due to poor service availability. Prior studies have explored the availability of mental health services in high-income countries but l
Smart home-based IoT for real-time and secure remote health monitoring of triage and priority system using body sensors: multi-driven systematic review. J Med Syst. 2019;43(3):42. Article PubMed Google Scholar Demiris G, Oliver DP, Dickey G, Skubic M, Rantz M. Findings from a ...
Kohrt BA, Jordans MJ, Tol WA, Luitel NP, Maharjan SM, Upadhaya N: Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry. 2011, 11 (1): 127-10.1186/1471-244X-11...
Outpatient clinics have a triage function of assessing patient condition, referring patients to specialists if so needed, and providing follow-up care. And finally, inpatient care, in the form of psychiatric emergency services or short-term hospitalization, is in place to prevent long-term ...
anxiety disorders were less strong. The DSRS and CPSS have acceptable properties, and they could be used in clinical practice as part of a two-stage screening procedure in public mental health programmes in Burundi and in similar cultural and linguistic settings in the African Great Lakes region...