Hospital & community psychiatry
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Hosp Community Psychiatry
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Hosp Community Psychiatry · Apr 1993
Frequent psychiatric visitors to a Veterans Affairs medical center emergency care unit.
The study examined characteristics of patients who made repeat visits to the psychiatric emergency service of a Veterans Affairs medical center. ⋯ One-third of patients seen during a one-year period revisited the emergency service, a rate substantially higher than those reported for large urban non-VA hospitals. The higher rate may have been due to the longer sampling period, to a more seriously ill population, or to fewer community resources for veterans because of misperceptions about their eligibility.