“…There has been a great deal written on the subject of emergency psychiatric services in recent years and much of the literature deals with emergency psychiatric services received in the general hospital emergency room~ :'Ehree local studies on emergency rooms and emergency services in the past two years-- Talley, 1977;Hersrud, Kiser, and Knox, 1977;and Parker, 1978-- Talley's research is a descriptive study of care provided to psychiatric patients in the UOHSC emergency room over a five-month period.…”