title: Composition and funding. Consultation-liaison psychiatry services.
abstract: All of the programs in the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine directory of U.S. consultation-liaison (C-L) fellowship training (N = 49) responded to a questionnaire to document composition and funding of their staff. The mean annual budget was $324,664 (range $40,000-$550,000), with a mean of 2.4 full-time equivalents and 1.6 fellowship training positions. A significant patient cohort and C-L staff and fellows exist in these programs to launch important hypothesis-generation studies.
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Strain
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Easton
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fulop
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000639:trends; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000191:economics*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000191:economics*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States