TY - JOUR
KW - collaborative care
KW - inpatient psychiatry
KW - integrated care
KW - medical psychiatric units
KW - Psychological services
AU - L. R. Pudalov
AU - M. T. Swogger
AU - M. Wittink
A1 - 
AB - Integrated medical and psychiatric hospital units hold great promise for improving the value and quality of care for patients with severe mental illness and concomitant acute medical needs. It is important to explore the utility of providing a range of multidisciplinary inpatient services to meet patients' complex needs. Within this context, services typically provided by psychologists have received little research attention. To address this gap in the literature, this study assessed inpatient clinicians' perceptions of the need for specific behavioural services on a medical psychiatric unit, exploring their overlap with established psychological services. Results indicate the potential utility of specific psychological services, including psychological assessments, direct psychosocial interventions, and psychoeducational training. While reimbursement and billing barriers still exist for psychologists to be routinely incorporated into hospital settings, the movement towards value-based care could provide the opportunity to think about the value added. Embedding evidence-based psychological services has the potential to promote high quality, well-rounded care that aligns with the established mission of multidisciplinary teamwork on integrated medical and psychiatric inpatient units.
BT - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
C5 - Healthcare Disparities
CP - 6
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/09540261.2018.1552125
IS - 6
JF - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
N2 - Integrated medical and psychiatric hospital units hold great promise for improving the value and quality of care for patients with severe mental illness and concomitant acute medical needs. It is important to explore the utility of providing a range of multidisciplinary inpatient services to meet patients' complex needs. Within this context, services typically provided by psychologists have received little research attention. To address this gap in the literature, this study assessed inpatient clinicians' perceptions of the need for specific behavioural services on a medical psychiatric unit, exploring their overlap with established psychological services. Results indicate the potential utility of specific psychological services, including psychological assessments, direct psychosocial interventions, and psychoeducational training. While reimbursement and billing barriers still exist for psychologists to be routinely incorporated into hospital settings, the movement towards value-based care could provide the opportunity to think about the value added. Embedding evidence-based psychological services has the potential to promote high quality, well-rounded care that aligns with the established mission of multidisciplinary teamwork on integrated medical and psychiatric inpatient units.
PP - England
PY - 2018
SN - 1369-1627; 0954-0261
SP - 210
EP - 223
EP - 
T1 - Towards integrated medical and mental healthcare in the inpatient setting: what is the role of psychology?
T2 - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
TI - Towards integrated medical and mental healthcare in the inpatient setting: what is the role of psychology?
U1 - Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 30821187
U3 - 10.1080/09540261.2018.1552125
VL - 30
VO - 1369-1627; 0954-0261
Y1 - 2018
ER -