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The age of accountability of consultation liaison, an example from a big referral hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

Sobhan Aarabi ,
Seyedeh Elham Sharafi  and
Mohammad-Hosein Pourgharib Shahi
Sobhan Aarabi
Affiliation:
Neuroscience institute, sports medicine research center, Tehran university of medical sciencesIran
Seyedeh Elham Sharafi
Affiliation:
Psychosomatic research center, Imam Khomeini hospital, Tehran university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad-Hosein Pourgharib Shahi
Affiliation:
Psychosomatic research center, Imam Khomeini hospital, Tehran university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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CL is a subspecialty in psychiatry and provides a variety of consultation services including diagnosis, therapeutic and teaching efforts of a psychiatrist in none psychiatric units or hospitals.

Objectives

This is a retrospective descriptive study that evaluated the consultation liaison (CL) psychiatry services in Imam Khomeini hospital, during two recent years.

Methods

The information has been obtained from reviews of medical profiles of patients who attended the hospital.

Results

A total of 681 patients (365 patients were male) received CL services during the study period. The most prevalent diagnosis groups were mood disorder (37.91%), delirium (13.6%) and anxiety (12.64%). Our study revealed that cardiovascular unit, infectious disease unit and general surgery units frequently requested for consultations among all hospital wards. Pediatrics unit had the lowest request rate for psychiatric consultation.

Conclusion

CL is on the rise in general hospitals, specifically in internal medicine and surgery units which alarm us to pay more attention to preventive strategies focused on the most referred problems including mood disorders, delirium and anxiety disorders in patients who attended general hospitals.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Consultation liaison psychiatry and psychosomatics
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S487
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

Footnotes

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Department of Sports Medicine (http://smrc.tums.ac.ir), Tehran University of Medical Sciences (http://www.tums.ac.ir), No. 7. Jalale Ale Ahmad Highway, PO Box: 14395-578, Tehran, Iran.

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