RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Family-doctor support for patients on a psychiatric case register JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO J R Coll Gen Pract FD British Journal of General Practice SP 605 OP 608 VO 27 IS 183 A1 Christine Hassall A1 J. A. Stilwell YR 1977 UL http://bjgp.org/content/27/183/605.abstract 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.