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Psychiatry"],"abstract":"<jats:p><jats:bold>Introduction:<\/jats:bold> Patients who come to the emergency department because of acute psychiatric symptoms are often not admitted to the correct department timely. The purpose of this study is to identify the clinical characteristics of patients with acute psychiatric symptoms in order to achieve early and correct triage in the emergency room.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methodology:<\/jats:bold> We conducted a cross-analysis of inpatients who first came to the emergency department with acute psychiatric symptoms and then admitted to the department of neurology or psychiatry between years 2012 and 2018. Among them, 70 patients were rediagnosed and retransferred, with 38 patients to the department of neurology and 32 patients to the department of psychiatry. The clinical characteristics, laboratory examination, and Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) were analyzed.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> Patients who were rediagnosed with neurological diseases were more prone to have somatic symptoms (headache, dizziness) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05). Because of the atypical early clinical manifestations in the emergency room, fever and positive neurological signs do not necessarily represent the diagnosis of neurological diseases. On the other hand, the absence of these manifestations does not guarantee the diagnosis of psychiatric illness. According to NPI, abnormal behaviors, changes in appetite, and sleep disturbances were more obvious in patients with neurological diseases (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05), whereas patients with psychiatric disorders often showed prominent irritability (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:<\/jats:bold> Acute psychiatric symptoms are usually complex and diverse. The triage and diagnosisshould be based on multiple factors. 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