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Article | January 01, 1992

Proposed Standards in Emergency Psychiatry

Douglas A. Puryear

Psychiatric Services 1992; doi:

The author expresses appreciation to Douglas Holmes, M. D., of Harvard Medical School for his work on the AAEP standards.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas; Parkland Memorial Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, Texas 75235

1992 by the American Psychiatric Association

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Editor's note: Emergency psychiatry's central role in patient care has gained increasing visibility since the establishment of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry in 1988. Major issues and developments in this important area of psychiatry will be highlighted regularly in a series of columns beginning in this issue. The column editor is James Randolph Hillard, M. D., professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Comments or questions about the column should be addressed to him at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, 231 Bethesda Avenue (ML 559), Cincinnati, Ohio 45267.

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