Electronic Medical Record Reporting Enhances Proactive Psychiatric Consultation

Numerous studies have demonstrated that psychiatric and substance use issues in general hospital inpatients result in increased length of stay and associated costs. Additional studies have demonstrated that proactive consultation models in psychiatry can effectively address these problems. Selecting patients for proactive interventions is less well studied. We sought to develop an automated, electronic medical record (EMR) based screening tool to select patients who might benefit from proactive psychiatric consultation.

Source: Psychosomatics - May 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christine T. Finn, Devendra Thakur, Katherine M. Shea, Natalie B.V. Riblet, H. Benjamin Lee, Gena Heng, Robert Scott, Todd S. Gardner, Susan Randlett, Teri LaRock, Nadee Siriwardana, Gilbert Green, William C. Torrey Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research