psychiatric examination
1psychiatric examination — See mental examination …
2Psychiatric assessment — A psychiatric assessment is a process of gathering information about a from a person within a mental health service, with the purpose of making a diagnosis. The assesment is usually the first stage of a treatment process, but psychiatric… …
3examination — noun 1 (formal) formal test ⇨ See also ↑exam ADJECTIVE ▪ certification (AmE), entrance ▪ final ▪ He has just completed his final examinations at São Paulo University. ▪ …
4Psychiatric history — A psychiatric history is the result of a medical process where a clinician working in the field of mental health (usually a psychiatrist) systematically records the content of an interview with a patient. This is then combined with the mental… …
5Psychiatric formulation — A psychiatric formulation is an explanatory synthesis of information obtained during a psychiatric clinical assessment and mental state examinationBibliographyhttp://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/297 …
6psychiatric — adj. Psychiatric is used with these nouns: ↑assessment, ↑care, ↑clinic, ↑condition, ↑consultation, ↑diagnosis, ↑disability, ↑disorder, ↑disturbance, ↑evaluation, ↑examination, ↑ …
7mental state examination — MSE a full psychiatric examination of signs and symptoms, which takes place during a psychiatric interview and should apply only to signs and symptoms elicited at that time; it should not take into account historical information. The examination… …
8Mental status examination — Intervention ICD 9 CM 94.09, 94.11 The mental status examination in the USA or mental state …
9Mini–mental state examination — Not to be confused with Mini international neuropsychiatric interview. The mini–mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a brief 30 point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in… …
10Cognistat (The Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination) — Cognistat, formerly known as the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination (NCSE), is a cognitive screening test that assesses five cognitive ability areas (language, construction, memory, calculations and reasoning). The test was first… …
