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The Chief Psychiatric Complaints

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On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry

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In this chapter, we review the chief psychiatric complaints encountered in geriatric patients in crisis and the initial intervention relevant to on-call and crisis situations. We hope to familiarize medical students, residents, practicing physicians, and allied mental health professionals with some of the high-risk clinical scenarios that they are likely to encounter while on call and on out-of-hours duties, in the provision of safe and effective patient care in the geriatric psychiatric population.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Ana Hategan MD & Karen Saperson MBChB

  2. Department of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Consultation-Liaison Service, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    James A. Bourgeois OD, MD

  3. Consultation-Liaison Service, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    James A. Bourgeois OD, MD

  4. Department of Psychiatry, Lawson Health Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Simon Chiu MD, PhD

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuros, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Ana Hategan

  2. Dept. of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psych, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, New York, USA

    James A. Bourgeois

  3. Dept.of Internal Med.,Div of General Med, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

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Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J.A., Saperson, K., Chiu, S. (2016). The Chief Psychiatric Complaints. In: Hategan, A., Bourgeois, J., Hirsch, C. (eds) On-Call Geriatric Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30346-8_10

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