Table 2 Psychiatric complaint
From: Transfers to psychiatry through the consultation-liaison psychiatry service: 11 years of experience
| Â | Transfers | Control group non-transfers | Two-tailed Fisher's exact test (p value) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | (n = 294) | % | (n = 225) | % | Â |
Attempted suicide | 146 | 49.6 | 50 | 22.2 | < 0.001 |
Psychiatric history/medication | 23 | 7.8 | 41 | 18.2 | < 0.001 |
Psychiatric symptomatology* | 94 | 32.0 | 93 | 41.3 | < 0.05 |
Disruptive behaviour/non-compliance | 31 | 10.5 | 11 | 4.9 | < 0.05 |
Subjective complaints without objective findings | 0 | 0.0 | 12 | 5.3 | < 0.001 |
Not described | 0 | 0.0 | 18 | 8.0 | < 0.001 |