PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Christine Hassall AU - J. A. Stilwell TI - Family-doctor support for patients on a psychiatric case register DP - 1977 Oct 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 605--608 VI - 27 IP - 183 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/27/183/605.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/27/183/605.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1977 Oct 01; 27 AB - The family-doctor consultations of 76 patients on a psychiatric case register and 76 matched controls were examined. During a two-year period the psychiatric patients consulted just over twice as often as the controls (p < 0ยท001). Contact with the psychiatric services did not reduce the psychiatric patients' demand for general-practitioner time.