Weddington W W
Psychother Psychosom. 1983;39(4):225-35. doi: 10.1159/000287744.
A records review of medical-surgical inpatients at a university hospital reveals that only 20% of patients seen in psychiatric consultation followed recommendations to seek psychiatric outpatient treatment. The study is unique in that immediate appointments with the consulting psychiatrists were offered prior to patients' discharge. The low rate is similar to the findings by others. Diagnosis of depression was associated with patients' keeping appointments, although social class may have been an indirect factor. Transformation of the medical-surgical inpatient to psychiatric outpatient remains a poorly understood process.
对一家大学医院内科-外科住院患者的病历审查显示，在接受精神科会诊的患者中，只有20%遵循建议寻求精神科门诊治疗。这项研究的独特之处在于，在患者出院前为其提供了与会诊精神科医生的即时预约。这一低比例与其他研究结果相似。抑郁症的诊断与患者遵守预约有关，尽管社会阶层可能是一个间接因素。内科-外科住院患者向精神科门诊患者的转变仍然是一个了解甚少的过程。
