Beale Chloe, Turner Trevor
ST6 in Psychiatry.
Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2013 Sep;74(9):492, 494-6. doi: 10.12968/hmed.2013.74.9.492.
It is standard practice for psychiatric nurses and junior doctors working in emergency departments to ask that patients be 'medically cleared' before psychiatric admission or even assessment. However, there is a lack of agreement over what this process should entail.