✦ LIBER ✦
Syphilis, neither dead nor buried—A survey of psychogeriatric inpatients
✍ Scribed by Dr. Anthony James Cleare; Robin Jacoby; Stuart John Tovey; Klaus Bergmann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Over a 5‐year period, 3.8% of 423 psychogeriatric inpatients who were tested for syphilis had positive serology. Eight out of 14 received treatment, in contrast to previous suggestions that treatment was rarely instigated. Screening and adequate investigation of this population remain important, and we believe that serology should be carried out routinely in organic cases.