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a) Stofnunin markaði sér nýja stefnu og
allt hjúkrunarliðið hæfi strax þjálfun, er
miðaði að vaxandi þátttöku og liðveizlu í
geðheilbrigðisþjónustu við sjúklingana eft-
ir þörfum á hverjum tíma, en með hlið-
sjón af væntanlegum störfum og stefnu
spítalans í framtíðinni.
b) Stofnunin gæti hafið rekstur lítillar
geðdeildar í viðbót við núverandi störf og
látið hana þróast hægt og hægt. Þessi leið
er handhægari, fyrirhafnarminni og fljót-
legri í framkvæmd og býður upp á fleiri
þróunarmöguleika fyrir hælið í framtíð-
inni.
SUMMARY
Psychiatric admissions to a general medical
ward.
Admissions to the general medical ward at
the Akureyri Hospital in Iceland were studied
for the period 1954-1972 inclusive. his study
was carried out in order to estimate the ratio
between psychiatric and total admissions.
There is no psychiatric ward in the hospital’s
catchment area.
There were 2,453 admissions due to psyehia-
tric disorders but the total number of ad-
missions was 11,603 giving a ratio of about
21 per cent
This and other figures e. g male/female
ratio and age distribution, correspond rough-
ly with the results of several studies from
other countries.
In the diagnostic distribution year by year
there is a gradual but clear increase in the
proportion of psychoses and alcoholism with
a corresponding decrease in the neuroses-
group.
HEIMILDIR
1. Anstee, B. H.: The Pattern of Psychiatric
Referrals in a General Hospital. Brit. J.
Psychiat. 120:631-634. 1972.
2. Bridges, P. K., Koller, K. M. and Wheeler,
T. K.: Psychiatric Referrals in a General
Hospital. Acta Psychiat. Scand. 42:171-182.
1966.
3. Edwards, J. G. and Angus, J. W. S.: In-
patient Psychiatric Referrals in an Am-
erican County Hospital. Comprehensive
Psychiatry 9:517-524. 1968.
4. Helsborg, H. C.: Psychiatric Investigations
of Patients in a Medicai Department.
5. Nielsen, J.: Psykiatriske Problemer pá et
blandet Sygehus. Ugeskr. Læger ? ? p.
1108-1115.
6. Shepherd, M., Davies, B. and Culpan,
Roger H.: Psychiatric Illness in the Gen-
eral Hospital. Acta Psychiat. Scand. 35:
518-525. 1960.
7. Strömgren, E., Andersen, T. og Schiödt,
E.: Psykiatriske Problemer pá Medicinske
Sygehusafdelinger. Ugeskr. f. Læger ?