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Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP?

Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP?. Ingrid H. Johansen , Tone Morken and Steinar Hunskår. In Norway. Regular General Practitioners (rGPs) GPs gatekeepers to all specialized health care Psychiatric diagnoses: rGPs: 10% Casualty clinics: 4%. Research question.

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Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP?

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  1. Are psychiatric emergency care patients in contact with their GP? Ingrid H. Johansen, Tone Morken and Steinar Hunskår

  2. In Norway • Regular General Practitioners (rGPs) • GPs gatekeepers to all specialized health care • Psychiatric diagnoses: • rGPs: 10% • Casualty clinics: 4%

  3. Research question Do the same individual psychiatric patients utilize both the casualty clinic and the rGPs’ surgery?

  4. Setting 24 000 individuals, one year

  5. Method • Electronic medical records • Billing cards • Variables: Gender, age, municipality of residence, first diagnosis, time, reimbursement codes • Unique codes

  6. Results

  7. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  8. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  9. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  10. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  11. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  12. Results cont. Casualty clinic rGPs’ surgeries

  13. Conclusion • Some of the psychiatric patients at the rGPs surgeries used the casualty clinic. • Most psychiatric patients at the casualty clinic also used their GP.

  14. ? ingrid.johansen@isf.uib.no

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