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Thanatology in a Liaison Psychiatry Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. K. Shelley*
Affiliation:
Senior Registrar in Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin; (formerly Senior Registrar in Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, Dublin)
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There has been increasing interest in recent years in the care of the terminally ill. Much of what has been written has been focussed on medical management and centred in hospices. The psychological dimension often appears neglected. The objective of this article is to outline the evolution, practice and problems of a liaison psychiatry input to the care of patients with terminal illness treated in a general hospital.

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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

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