Quality of psychiatric care in the general hospital: referrer perceptions of an inpatient liaison psychiatry service.

Aims: To explore the experience of senior staff on acute medical wards using an established inpatient liaison psychiatry service and obtain their views on clinically relevant performance measures.

Methods: Semistructured face-to-face interviews with consultants and senior nurses were taped, transcribed and analyzed manually using the framework method of analysis.

Results: Twenty-five referrers were interviewed.