Improving Psychiatric Consultation to Nonpsychiatrist Physicians

Troy L. Thompson; Thomas N. Wise; A. Benjamin Kelley; Lee S. Mann

doi:10.1016/S0033-3182(90)72221-9

Improving Psychiatric Consultation to Nonpsychiatrist Physicians

Troy L. Thompson, Thomas N. Wise, A. Benjamin Kelley, Lee S. Mann

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Nonpsychiatrist physicians were surveyed regarding problems that they had experienced when seeking a psychiatric consultation or treatment referral. They gave three main reasons for not referring more patients to psychiatrists: a belief that other mental health professionals could do as well at less cost, that psychiatrists were less available to discuss patients, and that greater stigma was attached to seeing a psychiatrist than seeing other mental health professionals. Psychiatrists might improve their consultation and referral networks by addressing the misperceptions of their nonpsychiatrist physician colleagues.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	80-84
Number of pages	5
Journal	Psychosomatics
Volume	31
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0033-3182(90)72221-9
State	Published - 1990
Externally published	Yes

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Applied Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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