[Accelerating consult letter time in inpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care].

Consult letters are the main way of relaying information between attending physicians involved in patient treatment at different levels of care and should therefore reach continuing care physicians with minimal delay. The quality assurance project described here was intended to reduce dispatch times for inpatient consult letters at our department of psychiatry and psychotherapy. To accomplish this, different measures were put to work at two levels of intervention.