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Liaison Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Paul Barczak
Paul Barczak*
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The General Hospital, Birmingham
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A liaison is a union or effective conjunction with another unit or force. A liaison officer is seen as one who forms links or integrates such units or forces. This is a simple definition obtained from a standard dictionary but a further attempt at defining what is meant by liaison psychiatry is not so easy. This problem of definition and the lack of uniformity in such services in different settings may partly result in the marked under-utilisation of psychiatric expertise in dealing with the large number of medical patients who have a psychiatric disorder regardless of the presence or absence of a physical illness.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 7 , July 1986 , pp. 178 - 180
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