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Treatment decisions following assessment by multidisciplinary psychogeriatric teams

University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW

Joe Herzberg, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry of Old Age

U.M.D.S., London SE1 9RT

Gill Collighan, Senior Registrar in Psychiatry

The Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals, London

Alastair Macdonald, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry of Old Age

U.M.D.S., London SE1 9RT

Michael Philpot, Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Psychogeriatrics

The Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals, London SE1 9RT

^* Correspondence

The psychiatric treatment decisions made by two multidisciplinary psychogeriatric teams in 100 new referrals were compared with those made by a group of psychiatrists following independent formal research assessments. There was satisfactory agreement between the team and research decisions with regard to psychiatric hospital admission, antidepressant treatment and neuroleptic treatment. Agreement was less good for psychological treatments.