Citation

Kreil S, Biermann T, Weih M, Kornhuber J, Maler JM, Sperling W. Psychiatr. Prax. 2011; 38(5): 250-252.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0030-1266052

PMID

21425037

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Analysis of liaison psychiatry cases of a university hospital.
METHODS: Descriptive analysis on the basis of all psychiatric consultations realized in the year 2008 at the university hospital of Erlangen.
RESULTS: About 1% of all patients with somatic diseases receive a psychiatric treatment by the liaison psychiatry at the same time. Suspected and final diagnosis of correspond in only one third of cases. The diagnoses are focused on only a few diseases. Suicidality is confirmed in a small number of cases. Most commonly a medicamentous treatment is recommended, above all antidepressant and typical neuroleptics.
CONCLUSIONS: The interdisciplinary treatment of patients with somatic diseases by the liaison psychiatry is an increasingly used instrument of other disciplines and serves to optimize the diagnostic and therapeutic efficiency of public health.

Language: de

Keywords

Humans; Cross-Sectional Studies; Suicide; Germany; Psychiatry; Mood Disorders; Comorbidity; Suicide Prevention; Dementia; Referral and Consultation; Forecasting; Hospitals, University; Mental Disorders; Health Services Needs and Demand; Cooperative Behavior; Interdisciplinary Communication; Psychotropic Drugs; Adjustment Disorders; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Somatoform Disorders