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Psychiatric hospitalisation in Munchausen's syndrome: is it an answer?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Dinesh K Arya
Dinesh K Arya*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, A Floor, South Block, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH
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Abstract

A patient is presented who resorted to frequent hospitalisation to avoid economic hardships. Psychiatric assessment and admission relieved the medical unit but was achieved at the cost of a valuable psychiatric bed. The question is raised: Is psychiatric hospitalisation an answer?

Keywords

Munchausen's syndromeHospitalisationpsychiatric
Type
Clinical & Brief Reports
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 20 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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