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Prognostic Significance in General Medical Patients

Samuel B. Guze, MD; Sompong Daengsurisri

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(3):365-366.

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WHEN SEEN on the general medical and surgical wards of a hospital, organic brain syndromes may indicate a poor prognosis with a high mortality. In 1964, Guze and Cantwell¹ reported a study of 117 patients with organic brain syndromes seen in consultation over a four-year period. Their findings, among other things, indicated a high mortality rate during the index admission when compared to the mortality of all hospital admissions during the same period. They concluded that "These figures indicate that patients referred for psychiatric consultation (presumably because they created a disturbance on the ward) who received a diagnosis of `organic brain' syndrome were much sicker than other general hospital patients." They point out, however, that "The data do not permit any conclusions, of course, about the comparative prognosis between patients of similar age, sex, and medical diagnosis with and without the psychiatric . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
St. Louis

From the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 21, 1967.

Reprint requests to 4940 Audubon Ave, St. Louis 63110 (Dr. Guze).

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