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Consultation-liaison psychiatry in the managed care arena
1Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|September 1, 1996
Abstract:
This article describes the history and current state of consultation-liaison psychiatry and managed care, the impact of managed care on consultation-liaison psychiatry, including service delivery and ethical issues, and recommendations for survival. The implications of managed health care delivery system reorganization for consultation-liaison psychiatry are important and offer challenges as well as opportunities for the field.