An Audit to Assess the Quality of Ward Referrals Sent to City Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Team From Inpatients Wards D15, D17and D27, Between July 2021 to September 2021

[摘要] Aims Liaison psychiatry provides psychiatric care to medical patients. Patients include those attending emergency departments, general hospital inpatients and outpatients. Liaison teams work hand in hand with several general hospital teams to offer advice, review and manage these patients. Over the last few months, the Liaison service in City Hospital have been receiving many inappropriate referrals. Inappropriate referrals are defined as patients who are referred to services, with one of the following reasons: 1. Insufficient presenting complaint 2. No documented Past psychiatric history 3. Insufficient Mental state Examination (MSE) 4. No risk assessment 5. No documented Drug/alcohol history 6. Patients having not consented to referral. 7. If one or more of the above criteria is not met Our aim was to evaluate the appropriateness of the referrals received from D15, D17, D27 inpatients wards in City Hospital over a 3-month period from July to September 2021. These wards were chosen as they commonly refer patients to liaison services.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）