Parameters of consultee satisfaction with inpatient academic psychiatric consultation services: a multicenter study.

Background: Consultation-liaison psychiatrists commonly perceive consultee satisfaction as a useful global measure of consultation-liaison service performance. No tool exists to measure consultee satisfaction. A single-site study at Columbia University Medical Center elicited ratings of parameters importantly contributing to consultee satisfaction within consultation-liaison services.

How do you know your consult service is doing a good job? Generating performance measures for C-L service effectiveness.

Background: There is no consensus in the literature on measures for evaluating the performance of general hospital Consultation-Liaison psychiatry services.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate what indicators might be used to this end.

Methods: We surveyed United States Psychosomatic Medicine fellowship directors (n = 53) about the use of performance measures for their psychiatric consultation services.

Validation of the Multidimensional Affect and Pain Survey (MAPS).

Unlabelled: The concurrent construct validity of the Multidimensional Affect and Pain Survey (MAPS) was determined in a sample of 100 oncology outpatients. As recommended by Jensen, we examined the frequency pattern of correlations between MAPS and standard questionnaires that reached a criterion level of significance. As predicted, the 17 subclusters in the MAPS Somatosensory Pain supercluster showed a higher mean frequency of criterion correlations with the 4 sensory-related groups of items from the MPQ and, equally important, a lower frequency of criterion correlations with unrelated constructs, POMS, and the MPQ Affective Class.

A translation of the Multidimensional Affect and Pain Survey (MAPS) from English to Japanese.

This paper introduces the Japanese translation of the Multidimensional Affect and Pain Survey (MAPS), a 101 item questionnaire which has been demonstrated to possess a number of advantages over the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ). We also review validation and other studies which used translations of MAPS into Chinese, Czech, Italian and Russian to study cancer related and chronic pain.