Journal article
An integrated regional Emergency Psychiatry Service
Abstract
This paper presents a model of an integrated Psychiatric Emergency Service serving Hamilton, a community of 450,000 in Southern Ontario. It describes the evolution of the service and how it has integrated five separate, hospital-run Emergency Psychiatric Services into a single service. The principles of the service and ways in which it operates are outlined and the advantages and drawbacks of the model are discussed. The authors conclude that …
Authors
Kates N; Eaman S; Santone J; Didemus C; Steiner M; Craven M
Journal
General Hospital Psychiatry, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 251–256
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 1996
DOI
10.1016/0163-8343(96)00020-5
ISSN
0163-8343