Consultation-Liaison psychiatric service delivery: results from a European study.

The reported findings of the European Consultation-Liaison Workgroup (ECLW) Collaborative Study describe consultation-liaison service delivery by 56 services from 11 European countries aggregated on a C-L service level. During the period of 1 year (1991), the participants applied a standardized, reliability tested method of patient data collection, and data were collected describing pertinent characteristics of the hospital, the C-L service, and the participating consultants. The consultation rate of 1% (median; 1.

European consultation-liaison services and their user populations: the European Consultation-Liaison Workgroup Collaborative Study.

The authors identified variations in the characteristics of patients referred to 56 consultation-liaison (C-L) services in 11 European countries. The authors found differences in the types of patients referred to the services, and there were significant differences between countries. The first difference lays in whether services saw patients for deliberate self-harm and for substance abuse.

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.