title: Communicating an effective message.
abstract: The increasing pervasiveness of "business" concerns in a cost-controlled medical care environment underscores the need to target communications regarding the operations of consultation-liaison (C-L) programs to the fiscal concerns of hospital and health care program administrators. Descriptions of what C-L programs have to offer should anticipate the specific interests of those who manage inpatient and ambulatory care programs and be phrased in terminology understandable by those managers.
authors: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston.
authors: J L
authors: JL
authors: Holtz
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000639:trends; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000639:trends*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000639:trends*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States