Table 1 Sample characteristics
From: Quality assessment of a consultation-liaison psychiatry service
Response rate | ||
Sent surveys, N | Responses, N (%) | |
Inpatient survey | 134 | 111 (82.8%) |
Outpatient survey | 43 | 41 (95,3%) |
Hospital Units | ||
Inpatient survey, N (%) | Outpatient survey, N (%) | |
Anesthesiology and Intensiv Care Unit | 6 | |
Cardiology | 8 | 8 |
Cardiothoracic Surgery | 5 | |
Emergency Medicin | 7 | |
Endocrinology | 4 | 7 |
Gastroenterology | 8 | 5 |
Gastrointestinal Surgery | 9 | |
Geriatrics | < 3 | |
Hematology | 8 | |
Infectious Diseases | 9 | 5 |
Nephrology | 14 | 5 |
Neurology | 8 | 5 |
Oncology | 3 | |
Orthopaedic Surgery | 5 | |
Pulmonology | 11 | 6 |
Thoracic Intensiv Care Unit | < 3 | |
NA | 3 | |
Responder characteristics | ||
Inpatient survey, N (%) | Outpatient survey, N (%) | |
Physicians | 53 (48) | 34 (83) |
Working already before 7 | 70 (63) | 33 (80) |
Referred cases to CLP | ||
0–5 cases | 31 (28) | 5 (12) |
6–10 cases | 25 (23) | 16 (39) |
More than 10 cases | 55 (50) | 20 (49) |