European Consultation-Liaison Psychiatric Services: the ECLW Collaborative Study.

Objective: To describe the patterns of organization of consultation-liaison (C-L) services in 11 European countries in relation to hospital characteristics and national approaches to C-L psychiatry.

Method: Cross-sectional survey.

Results: Services can best be described in terms of their size and seniority of their staff and whether or not they are multidisciplinary.