Textbook of Postgraduate Psychiatry (2 Vols.) notes

Socio demographic details: (Ask for name, age, gender, socio-economic status and average family annual income, marital status, occupational status) Informant: (Record who is the informant – name and relationship to patient) Reliability of information (Is the information consistent, corroborative, and continuous?) Adequacy of information (Is the information adequate to come to a provisional diagnosis?) Presenting complaints: (present the main 3-4 complaints preferably in patients word...

Socio demographic details: (Ask for name, age, gender, socio-economic status and average family annual income, marital status, occupational status) Informant: (Record who is the informant – name and relationship to patient) Reliability of information (Is the information consistent, corroborative, and continuous?) Adequacy of information (Is the information adequate to come to a provisional diagnosis?) Presenting complaints: (present the main 3-4 complaints preferably in patients word...