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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
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.
This is a retrospective descriptive study that evaluated the consultation liaison (CL) psychiatry services in Imam Khomeini hospital, during two recent years.
The information has been obtained from reviews of medical profiles of patients who attended the hospital.
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.
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.
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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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