title: Improving psychiatric consultation to nonpsychiatrist physicians.
abstract: Nonpsychiatrist physicians were surveyed regarding problems that they had experienced when seeking a psychiatric consultation or treatment referral. They gave three main reasons for not referring more patients to psychiatrists: a belief that other mental health professionals could do as well at less cost, that psychiatrists were less available to discuss patients, and that greater stigma was attached to seeing a psychiatrist than seeing other mental health professionals. Psychiatrists might improve their consultation and referral networks by addressing the misperceptions of their nonpsychiatrist physician colleagues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000191:economics; D012017:Referral and Consultation