Background Hospital inpatients often experience medical and psychiatric problems
simultaneously. Although this implies a certain relationship between healthcare utilization …

Objective Roughly half of general hospital patients may have a psychiatric issue that impacts
care, yet most of these are not recognized during hospital admission. Proactive mental …

Background Some studies suggest intensive psychiatric consultation services facilitate
medical care and reduce length of stay (LOS) in general hospitals. Objective To compare …

Background: When hospitalized for medical conditions, many people with severe mental
illness (SMI) have poor outcomes, yet little is known about contributing factors. Studies …

Title. Non‐psychiatric hospitalization of people with mental illness: systematicreview. Aim.
This paper is a report of a literature review of the evidence regarding outcomes experienced …

In 2019, the American Psychiatric Association Council on Consultation-Liaison (CL)
Psychiatry convened a work group to develop a resource document on proactive CL …

Background: Mental illness correlates with an increased length of stay (LOS) for patients
hospitalized for medical conditions. While psychiatric consultations help manage mental …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of timing of a psychiatry
consultation during pediatric hospitalization on length of hospital stay and total …

Objective Criteria for psychiatric hospitalization have undergone marked changes. Efforts to
limit length-of-hospitalization risk greater morbidity at discharge and increased needs for …

Methods This cross-sectional study included data from a nurse survey, patient discharge
records, the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey, and the Pennsylvania …