Treatment opportunities on a consultation/liaison service.
The amount of time consultation psychiatrists in a large metropolitan teaching hospital spent providing direct services was studied over 1,104 consecutive consultation cases. Although the majority of cases required less than 5 hours of psychiatric time apiece, more than 10% of these cases each received more than 10 hours of direct services. This finding has important implications for understanding the types of psychiatric services provided to hospitalized medical/surgical patients.
Lyons
J S
JS
Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Service, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611.
Hammer
J S
JS
Larson
D B
DB
Petraitis
J
J
Strain
J J
JJ
D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013996:Time and Motion Studies