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Identification of psychotic symptoms in non-specialist settings is key to initiating timely pathways to care. A systematic review of 30 observational studies of pathways to care of first-episode psychosis showed that first contact was more usually through a physician than through emergency services. This article is aimed at generalists, primary care physicians, and hospital doctors, who play a critical role and who require a low threshold for referral for specialist assessment, sometimes before diagnosis is certain.
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A general practitioner may support four to eight patients with psychotic disorder and see one new presentation each year. Other non-specialist doctors will encounter patients presenting to an emergency department or complicating comorbid illness.
Psychosis often emerges for the first time in adolescence and young adulthood. In around four out of five patients symptoms remit, but most experience relapses and further difficulties. The first two to five years of psychosis are considered a critical period for intervening to improve long term outcome.567 The non-specialist plays a key role in early identification.
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The paper discussed here, Chang et al., (2016), presents a longitudinal 3-year follow up of first episode patients with mania with psychosis and those with a schizophreniform psychosis. This is an important study for those who work within Early Intervention in Psychosis services; although the majority of patients in such services will ultimately go on to have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a substantial proportion will have an affective psychosis, presenting with either a depressive or manic episode, with psychotic features. Yet, most of the studies of first episode psychosis tend to be with patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia; hence, this paper begins to fill an important aporia for clinicians and researchers interested in the early course of psychotic illness more generally.
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Karin Neufield and colleagues explore this question in their paper published this year (Neufield et al, 2016). This is a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at whether antipsychotics are any good in the treatment and prevention of delirium.
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