Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:45:08.717Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Rejection of psychiatric treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Graham Hillis  and
David A. Alexander
Graham Hillis
Affiliation:
4th Year Medical Student, Medical School, University of Aberdeen
David A. Alexander
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University Medical Buildings, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZD (correspondence)
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The growing realisation that health care resources are limited has led to increasing concern about the wastage caused by the failure of patients to keep their psychiatric appointments. Generally, non-attendance following psychiatric referral is particularly high (e.g. Baekland & Lundwall, 1975), although in the north-east of Scotland the rate is roughly similar to those reported by other specialties (Alexander & Hillis, 1989). However, little effort has been made to elicit the views of non-attenders themselves or to consider what aspects of the referral system may contribute to this failure to attend.

Type
Articles
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 149 - 150
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

References

Alexander, D. A. & Hillis, G. (1989) Referrals to hospital by general practitioners. British Medical Journal, 298, 48.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Baekland, F. & Lundwall, L. (1975) Dropping out of treatment: a critical review. Psychological Bulletin, 82, 738–783.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carpenter, P. J., Morrow, G. R., Del Gaudio, A. C. & Rizler, B. A. (1981) Who keeps the first outpatient appointment? American Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 101–105.Google Scholar
Editorial (1972) The patient's point of view. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 22, 810.Google Scholar
Francis, V., Korsch, B. M. & Morris, M. J. (1969) Gaps in doctor-patient communication. New England Journal of Medicine, 280, 535–540.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.