… Ian Pullen has recently retired from the NHS where he was Principal Medical Officer at the
Scottish Executive Health Department, Edinburgh, UK (email: ipullen@doctors.net.uk). John …

General practitioners and psychiatrists communicate mainly by letter. To ascertain the most
important items of information that should be included in these letters ("key items") …

Three cases of self-inflicted eye injuries are described and discussed. A review of the literature
shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to those who mutilate their …

Background: Although many outcome measures are available, there is little empirical evidence
to help clinicians to decide which to adopt in clinical, as opposed to research settings. …

There has been a growing number of reports of psychiatrists moving out into primary-care
settings. We report a survey of consultant psychiatrists to assess the extent of this practice in …

Availability of new DNA markers, more tightly linked to the Huntington's disease (HD) locus
than the original G8 (D4S10) probes, has improved predictive accuracy for both …

A 20 month old Caucasian male child, after a five week illness, developed liver failure which
was successfully treated by liver transplantation. The explanted liver had a histology …

Out-patient referrals to the Edinburgh adult psychiatric service between 1981 and 1985
were studied using the Edinburgh Psychiatric Case Register. The hypotheses that primary-care …

The implementation of the community care changes throughout the United Kingdom from 1
April will mark the culmination of a series of major health and social care reforms. The …

The quality of written communication between psychiatrists and general practitioners has
become increasingly important, with the introduction of the Access to Health Records Act as …