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Download Additional Fact Sheets
The authors have included additional fact sheets related to hospital psychiatry as PDF downloads.

Practitioner Sheets

• Carlat Hospital Psychiatry Fact Book Practitioner Sheets in one PDF
• Practitioner Sheet: Administering the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)
• Practitioner Sheet: Aid To Capacity Evaluation (ACE): Administration
• Practitioner Sheet: Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol Scale, Revised (CIWA-Ar)
• Practitioner Sheet: Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS)
• Practitioner Sheet: Common Hospital Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Practitioner Sheet: Effective Participation in Inpatient Unit Team Meetings
• Practitioner Sheet: Daily Patient List
• Practitioner Sheet: Family Member Interview Tips
• Practitioner Sheet: Five Tips for Prescribing Medications on Inpatient Psychiatric Units
• Practitioner Sheet: How to Administer the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale (BFCRS)
• Practitioner Sheet: How to Administer the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
• Practitioner Sheet: How to Cover a Colleague’s Patients
• Practitioner Sheet: Inpatient Psychiatry: Organizing Your Day
• Practitioner Sheet: Interviewing Continuing Patients: Tips and Guidelines
• Practitioner Sheet: Managing Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnant Patients
• Practitioner Sheet: Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: Recognition and Management
• Practitioner Sheet: New Patient Evaluation Tips
• Practitioner Sheet: Psychiatric Admission Note (Basic Outline)
• Practitioner Sheet: Reviewing Old Records for Newly Admitted Psychiatric Patients
• Practitioner Sheet: Short Form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (Short IQCODE)
• Practitioner Sheet: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
• Practitioner Sheet: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)

Patient Sheets

• All Three Carlat Psychiatry Fact Book Patient Sheets in One PDF
• Patient Sheet: Risks and Benefits of Common Psychiatric Medications
• Patient Sheet: Staying on Track: Your Guide to Stability After Discharge
• Patient Sheet: Understanding Metabolic Syndrome

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