title: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Literature Database (2003 update). Part I: Consultation - Liaison Literature Database: 2003 update and national lists.
abstract: Every day there are 10,000 scientific articles published. Since the Consultation-Liaison ("C-L") psychiatrist may be asked to consult on a patient with any medical illness, e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), malaria, cancer, stroke, amytrophic, lateral sclerosis, and a patient who may be on any medical drug, methods need to be developed to review the recent literature and have an awareness of key and essential current findings. At the same time, teachers need to develop a current listing of seminal papers for trainees and practitioners of this newest cross-over subspecialty of psychiatry-now called Psychosomatic Medicine. Experts selected because of their writings and acknowledged contributions to a specific clinical area or problem hope examined thousands of citations to choose those articles, chapters, books, or letters that they regard as most important to Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition, psychiatric specialists in six countries have provided their national Psychosomatic Medicine (Consultation-Liaison) lists as examples of what they regard as the most important teaching materials journals: Australia, Brazil, Greece, Mexico, Portugal, and Taiwan. It is our belief that a cogent, international, systematic review will provide the greatest success in creating a "regionally appropriate" teaching and consultation literature database with world-wide applicability. We review our current progress on this literature database and software, the technical system and data organization involved, the approach used to populate the literature system, and ongoing development plans to bring this system to the physician via mobile technologies.
authors.affiliation: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Strain
authors.forename: Jay J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Strain
authors.forename: Shawkat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mustafa
authors.forename: Luis Ruiz Guillermo
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.forename: Graeme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mayou
authors.forename: Serafim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Niem Mu
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: Renerio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fragras
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsopolis
authors.forename: Ulrik
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Malt
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic / Q000639:trends*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000639:trends; D007391:International Cooperation; D020407:Internet / Q000639:trends; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000639:trends*; D012984:Software / Q000639:trends