Opening the ‘black box’: liaison psychiatry services and what they actually do
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Opening the ‘black box’: liaison psychiatry services and what they actually do
Aims and method To develop a simple, pragmatic typology to characterise the nature of liaison interventions delivered by a liaison service in a National Health Service setting. We carried out a retrospective electronic case-note review of referrals to a ward-based liaison psychiatry service. Results Three hundred and forty-four patients were referred to the service over a 12-month period. Ten d...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJPsych Bulletin
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2056-4694,2056-4708
DOI: 10.1192/pb.bp.115.051771