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Out-patient referrals of major depression to psychiatrists in central Liverpool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ben Green  and
M. Amin El-Hihi
Ben Green*
Affiliation:
Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool L63 3BX
M. Amin El-Hihi
Affiliation:
Rainhill Hospital, Merseyside
*
(correspondence)
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Psychiatric clinics see 4% of all hospital referrals by general practitioners (GPs), but the literature contains surprisingly little about the referral behaviour of, and the patients referred by, GPs to psychiatrists (Wilkinson, 1989). We describe an analysis of the Royal Liverpool Hospital psychiatric out-patient clinic which serves a deprived inner city population of 125,000 people and its GPs.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 8 , August 1990 , pp. 465 - 467
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990

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