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Patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric illness consistently experience worse health outcomes and higher costs (1). This is especially true for hospital inpatients with such comorbidity (2). Despite these findings,… Click to show full abstract
Patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric illness consistently experience worse health outcomes and higher costs (1). This is especially true for hospital inpatients with such comorbidity (2). Despite these findings, there is limited integration of medical and psychiatric care in most general medical hospitals (3). An exception to this observation is integrated hospital units that provide simultaneousmedical and psychiatric care. These complexity intervention units (CIUs), also called high-acuity medical psychiatric units, target patients with high-acuity medical and psychiatric illness
Journal Title: Psychosomatic Medicine
Year Published: 2020
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