What is it about?
Consult and Liaison services are available at Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi since its inception. This paper is about the referral patterns from inpatient services all across hospital to psychiatry services
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Why is it important?
All over the world deliberate self harm is the main reason of consult to psychiatric services but in our study we found that behavioral problems is the main reason of consult and delirium is the most common diagnosis of consults
Perspectives
This paper helped us to focus capacity building of other healthcare professionals in identification, diagnosis and management of delirium.
Dr. Sana Asif Siddiqui
Aga Khan University
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This page is a summary of: Liaison psychiatry in low & middle income countries: experiences at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), Karachi, Pakistan, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, November 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.101889.
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