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Emergency psychiatric patients in a municipal hospital — Demographic clinical and dispositional characteristics

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These data, especially the fact that nearly 40% of the patients do not arrive on their own initiative, show why this type of practice is challenging, to say the least.

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  1. the department of psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA

    Stephen F. Bauer M. D. (assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and director, psychiatric inpatient services) &  Leon Balter M. D. (clinical instructor of psychiatry)

  2. Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Pelham Parkway and Eastchester Road, 10461, Bronx, N. Y.

    Stephen F. Bauer M. D. (assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and director, psychiatric inpatient services)

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This investigation was supported in part by the State of New York, Department of Mental Hygiene, Grant C-24516.

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Bauer, S.F., Balter, L. Emergency psychiatric patients in a municipal hospital — Demographic clinical and dispositional characteristics. Psych Quar 45, 382–393 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01574279

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