A Study of Psychiatric Referrals in a Multidisciplinary Teaching Hospital.

Between April 2009 and June 2009, a three month period, a total of 130 inpatients from a tertiary care, multidisciplinary hospital were referred for psychiatric opinion. 35 cases were referred for attempted suicide and 95 cases for other reasons. An analysis of these two groups of referrals was done to study the referral trends. About 7% with organic disorders, 14.6% presented with drug dependence, 7.7% with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, 22.3% presented with mood disorders. Our findings were like other Asian countries with a significant group comprising of dissociative disorder (hysteria) unlike west.