TY - JOUR
KW - Canada
KW - Family Practice/manpower/methods
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Mental Disorders/therapy
KW - Models, Organizational
KW - Nurses
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Physicians, Family
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Psychiatry/manpower/methods
KW - Referral and Consultation/organization & administration
KW - Retrospective Studies
AU - D. Behroozi
AU - G. Mazowita
AU - M. D. Davis
A1 - 
AB - PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: The standard organization of psychiatric inpatient care at our hospital involved consultations with various specialist physicians visiting the psychiatry wards to assess patients' medical needs and to provide appropriate interventions. We thought that this type of clinical care pathway might not be leading to the best integration and timeliness of patient care, the most efficient use of specialist resources, or the least cost to the health care system. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM: To initiate a protocol that would involve an FP visiting all the psychiatry wards daily (on weekdays) to conduct medical consultations. We hoped this program would improve the timeliness and integration of patient care, reduce patients' length of stay in hospital, and alter the pattern of specialist consultations. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The FP consulted on patients referred by psychiatrists and registered psychiatric nurses; carried out assessments; initiated treatment of commonmedical problems; referred to other specialists when necessary; and made arrangements for follow-up care as appropriate. CONCLUSION: The FP consultations improved patient care in several ways, was highly valued by staff, and modified the pattern of specialist consultations on participatingpsychiatry wards.
BT - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 1
CY - Canada
IS - 1
JF - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
N2 - PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: The standard organization of psychiatric inpatient care at our hospital involved consultations with various specialist physicians visiting the psychiatry wards to assess patients' medical needs and to provide appropriate interventions. We thought that this type of clinical care pathway might not be leading to the best integration and timeliness of patient care, the most efficient use of specialist resources, or the least cost to the health care system. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM: To initiate a protocol that would involve an FP visiting all the psychiatry wards daily (on weekdays) to conduct medical consultations. We hoped this program would improve the timeliness and integration of patient care, reduce patients' length of stay in hospital, and alter the pattern of specialist consultations. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The FP consulted on patients referred by psychiatrists and registered psychiatric nurses; carried out assessments; initiated treatment of commonmedical problems; referred to other specialists when necessary; and made arrangements for follow-up care as appropriate. CONCLUSION: The FP consultations improved patient care in several ways, was highly valued by staff, and modified the pattern of specialist consultations on participatingpsychiatry wards.
PP - Canada
PY - 2008
SN - 1715-5258; 0008-350X
SP - 57
T1 - Collaboration in caring for psychiatric inpatients: Family physicians team up with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses
T2 - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
TI - Collaboration in caring for psychiatric inpatients: Family physicians team up with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 18208956
VL - 54
VO - 1715-5258; 0008-350X
Y1 - 2008
ER -