Two clinicians for one patient, is it worth it? Patients' perspective on receiving treatment from a pair of clinicians, in a psychiatric emergency and crisis unit.

Background: In the field of psychiatric crisis interventions, treatment is commonly provided by multidisciplinary teams in Western countries. However, empirical data on the processes involved in this type of intervention are lacking, in particular from a patient perspective. Our study aims to gain a better understanding of the patients' experience of a treatment setting provided by a pair of clinicians in a psychiatric emergency and crisis intervention unit.

[Team supervision in Consultation Liaison psychiatry : thoughts and landmarks].

Team supervision is an important task in consultation liaison psychiatry. Supervision allows to exchange on a clinical situation with many different objectives that we describe here. The integration of a plurality of views on a situation, as well as the support of caregivers interpersonal skills are among the goals of utmost importance.

Prevention of major depression in complex medically ill patients: preliminary results from a randomized, controlled trial.

Background: Depression is highly prevalent in patients with physical illness and is associated with a diminished quality of life and poorer medical outcomes.

Objective: The authors evaluated whether a multifaceted intervention conducted by a psychiatric consultation-liaison nurse could reduce the incidence of major depression in rheumatology inpatients and diabetes outpatients with a high level of case complexity.

Method: Of 247 randomized patients, the authors identified 100 patients with a high level of case complexity at baseline and without major depression (65 rheumatology and 35 diabetes patients).