Psychiatric Referrals in a Multidisciplinary Teaching Hospital

Consultation-liaison psychiatric service utilization by suicide attempters

“…[ 7 ] Suicidal attempt as a reason for psychiatric referral has ranged from 1.35% to 50%. [ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ] Two studies have found deliberate self-harm to be the most common reason of referral (50% and 33.9%),[ 13 14 ] and another has found it to be the second leading cause (20.4%). [ 12 ]…”