title: Diagnoses of psychiatric disorders in hypothetical patients by non-psychiatric physicians in Japan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was undertaken to investigate non-psychiatric physicians' diagnoses of hypothetical patients in clinical scenarios with comorbid medical and psychiatric disease in Japan.
  
  
  METHODS
  The non-psychiatric physicians were asked to diagnose eight clinical scenarios describing several typical behavioral health problems in the medical settings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 155 non-psychiatric physicians participated. Many physicians had problems correctly diagnosing depression and hypoactive delirium with medically ill patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is time to incorporate new efficient and effective approaches, such as collaborative care system and proactive delirium prevention programs, to improve overall behavioral health diagnosis and treatment, rather than relying on the rapid recognition of behavioral health problems in primary care/general medical settings.
authors: Yasuhiro
authors: Y
authors: Kishi
authors: Hisashi
authors: H
authors: Kurosawa
authors: Naoshi
authors: N
authors: Horikawa
authors: Kotaro
authors: K
authors: Hatta
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Meller
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007388:Internal Medicine; D007564:Japan; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires