Treatment opportunities on a consultation/liaison service |
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Authors: | J S Lyons J S Hammer D B Larson J Petraitis J J Strain |
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Affiliation: | Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Service, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611. |
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Abstract: | The amount of time consultation psychiatrists in a large metropolitan teaching hospital spent providing direct services was studied over 1,104 consecutive consultation cases. Although the majority of cases required less than 5 hours of psychiatric time apiece, more than 10% of these cases each received more than 10 hours of direct services. This finding has important implications for understanding the types of psychiatric services provided to hospitalized medical/surgical patients. |
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