Somatic illness in psychiatric patients
PsychosomaticsPublished 1 November 1980
Erwin K. Koranyi
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The author reviews a dozen studies conducted over a period of 40 years and shows that approximately half of a total of over 4,000 psychiatric patients had major medical illnesses.
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The author reviews a dozen studies conducted over a period of 40 years and shows that approximately half of a total of over 4,000 psychiatric patients had major medical illnesses. Somatic conditions were directly related to the psychiatric symptoms in 9% to 42% of the cases. Approximately half of the patients’ referring physicians had not diagnosed their physical illnesses. These findings and five brief case reports point up the need to follow a medical model on psychiatric services.
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