Will staff restructuring improve psych diagnoses?
Shift philosophy and supplement your staff's expertise with specialists to improve psychiatric diagnosis rates. Broaden your trauma-based model to incorporate non-urgent mental health conditions. Increase access to substance abuse specialists, psychologists/psychiatrists, and social workers. Seek to have other departments bear financial burden of making these specialists available to the ED.
D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States