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V Carstairs

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PubMed1980

The reliability of a Survey Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for the elderly.

The Survey Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (SPAS) was used in a survey of elderly people living at home and in institutions to examine its reliability in determining mental state. A psychiatrist assessed the same subjects using the Geriatric Mental State Schedule (GMSS) and classified psychiatric disorder into three broad groups: organic disorders, schizophrenia and paranoid disorders, and affective disorders and psychoneuroses. The agreement between the psychiatrist's classification of mental state and the classification derived from SPAS was found to be satisfactory for organic disorders and less satisfactory for functional disorders. The limitations of this method of identifying psychiatric illness are examined.

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PubMed1971

Inpatient management: variations in some aspects of practice in Scotland.

Data for four aspects of inpatient management-namely, variations in length of stay, the time patients spend in hospital before or after operation, and the proportion of patients operated on in surgical units-show considerable variations in certain aspects of practice by Scottish consultants. It is suggested that there may be simple explanations for some of the observed variations. The differences could be due to great variation in the constraints encountered by the consultants in their work, or to wide differences of opinion about the optimum treatment for specific diagnoses.

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