This content is machine translated Psychiatry Diversity is key, especially in times of crisis The world is upside down, one horror story follows the next. In times of crisis like these, mental health is particularly in focus. More than 9000 doctors, researchers and therapists...…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Geriatric Psychiatry Increased patient numbers, effective treatment The results of the ANQ quality measurements in Swiss psychiatric clinics show the extent to which patients’ symptom burden decreased during inpatient treatment in 2023. The use of measures that…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Anxiety disorders The fear of fear: diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric illnesses.The reaction to danger, which is actually essential for survival, becomes clinically relevant at the moment when the fear experience is groundless,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Inpatient psychiatry Effective treatments and fewer measures that restrict freedom The results of the 2022 quality measures in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry have been published. They show that inpatient treatments led to a significant decrease in patients’ average…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Quality assurance Stays in psychiatric hospitals are satisfactory Satisfaction among adult inpatient psychiatry patients remains very high. Likewise, Swiss acute and children’s hospitals also achieve very high satisfaction scores. This is evidenced by two national satisfaction surveys conducted…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Critical for the course of the disease Psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy. In refractory epilepsies, the rate of mental syndromes is significantly higher than in the general population, occurring in one in three patients [1]. Here, affective and anxiety disorders are in…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Guidelines in psychiatry Does psychiatry need more standardization? The discussion as to whether guidelines are necessary in medicine is controversial, especially for the field of psychiatry, in which the relationship between doctor and patient plays a significant role,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Border areas of psychiatry and somatics In psychiatric patients, also pay attention to skin, eyes and teeth The symposium “Perspectives on Psychiatric Therapy” was held for the 15th time this year in Zurich. Due to the large number of participants, the lectures were broadcast live to a…
