Is the Friday afternoon consult frequent? Timing of consultation requests on a psychiatric consultation service.
Two hundred psychiatric consultations were reviewed to determine if there was a pattern regarding the time of day and day of the week that consultations were requested. Consultations were found to be requested on a random basis although a survey of consultation psychiatrists perceived that consultations were more often requested late in the day. The implications of such misperceptions are discussed as they relate to negative attitudes towards consultative psychiatry by psychiatric physicians.
Wise
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TN
Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Jani
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Kass
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E
Mann
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LS
D002665:Child Psychiatry; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013997:Time Factors