OBJECTIVE: To show prospectively the impact of establishing a consultation-liaison (C/L)
psychiatry model on the consultation clinical indices. METHODS: A structured, organized …

Although referral by general hospital doctors is a major pathway to specialist psychiatric
care, and there is known to be much clinically unrecognised psychiatric morbidity among …

Research that has developed in association with the consultation-liaison service at the
Toronto General Hospital is reviewed in this paper. The value of systematic investigation in …

This study investigated two general questions. First, it attempted to determine what aspects
of psychiatric consultation were most valued by different departments in a general hospital …

the definition of CL psychiatry is based on increasingly specialized skills and a developing
research base, and on the increasing range of applications of the subspecialty.[...] CL …

Consultation-liaison psychiatry had its inception in North America, the term making its first
appearance in the 1930s to describe the department at Colorado General Hospital in …

Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP) is a subspecialty of clinical psychiatry that includes
clinical, teaching, and research activities of psychiatrists and allied mental health …

Presents the results of systematic monitoring of a psychiatric consultation-liaison (CL)
service at Guy's Hospital in South East London, over a period of 5 yrs. 1,108 patients (aged …

The demographics, referral patterns, and diagnoses of a psychiatric consultation-liaison
service during a 1-year period are reported. A comparison with data from a similar …

BACKGROUND: At least one half of all patients who admitted to GENERAL HOSPITAL s,
suffer from psychiatric comorbidities. Management of MENTAL DISORDER s in these …