title: [Psychiatric consultation service in a large medical clinic: evaluation over a 3-year period].
abstract: The report is based on 1,165 medical inpatients seen by the consultant psychiatrist within a 3-year period. During the last year evaluated for this study psychiatric consultation was requested for 2.8% of the total non-psychiatric hospital admissions. Questions to the consultant are most often referred to psychogenic factors, depression and suicidality. The most frequent psychiatric diagnosis was neuroses/reactions/ personality disorders followed by suicidality, organic psychoses, psychosomatic illnesses, endogenous psychoses, somatopsychic syndromes and addictions. Further details and problems in psychiatric consultation are discussed.
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
vernacular_title: Psychiatrischer Konsiliardienst an einem medizinischen Grossklinikum: Evaluation dreier Jahrgänge.