Yataklı Tedavi Hizmeti Sunan Psikiyatri Kliniklerinde Ektanılar.

Objectives: Recently, many treatment and rehabilitation programs have been developed to increase life quality of psychiatric patients. Nevertheless, comorbid medical problems of psychiatric patients are still being neglected. This may lead to unpredictable complications or exacerbation of the existing psychiatric disorder of the patient. Consultations of all psychiatric patients treated in a psychiatric hospital were examined. We aimed to pay attention to the comorbidity in the psychiatric inpatients. Method: Patients hospitalized to psychiatry services of the mental hospital between January 2007 and December 2009 were enrolled in the study. With this object in mind, we screened 6334 consultation request recorded in our hospital's automation system. Age, gender, inpatient psychiatry clinic, number of hospitalized days, specialty from which a consultation is required and the discharge diagnostics of the patients were investigated. Results: Although the number of hospitalized patients has decreased the power of the study, size of the case number increased it. The evaluation of the diagnosis based on the requested specialties revealed that 23.7% of the cases were requested from neurology. It was followed by respiratory system diseases (15.5%), musculoskeletal system diseases (14.4%), endocrine and metabolic diseases (13.3%) and cardiovascular diseases (11.3%) respectively. Conclusion: Comorbid diseases will exacerbate the clinical manifestation of the psychiatric diseases and on the other hand this will increase the severity of the existing medical condition. Therefore, general medical condition of the psychiatric patients must not be neglected. It is obvious that psychiatrists should update their general medical knowledge in this respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]