Lehmann Susan W, Rabins Peter V, Jayaram Geetha, Byer Virginia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and the Baltimore County Department of Health, Bureau of Mental Health, Towson, MD.
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1993;1(1):74-81. doi: 10.1097/00019442-199300110-00010. Epub 2013 Jan 28.
To learn more about elderly patients who use outpatient mental health services, we retrospectively reviewed the charts of 75 patients overage 60 treated in an inner-city community mental health center during a 1-year period and compared them with 34 patients in a hospital-based psychogeriatric clinic and 26 patients in a suburban geriatric outreach program. The patients in the three settings differed with regard to age of onset and type of psychopathology, use of psychotropic medication, and mental health needs.
为了进一步了解使用门诊心理健康服务的老年患者，我们回顾性查阅了一家市中心社区心理健康中心在1年时间里收治的75名60岁以上患者的病历，并将他们与一家医院老年精神科诊所的34名患者以及一个郊区老年 outreach 项目的26名患者进行了比较。这三种环境中的患者在发病年龄、精神病理学类型、精神药物使用情况和心理健康需求方面存在差异。
