The Nature and Activity of Liaison Psychiatry Services in Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh: A Study in MMCH

Background: Liaison Psychiatry is the study, practice and teaching of the association between medical and psychiatric ailments. Aim of the study: The aim of this study is to find out the referring department, reason for consultation, common psychiatric and medical comorbidities treatment pattern and sociodemographic of the referred patients to psychiatry department from the other departments of MMCH. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out from January 2011 to December 2020. Patients referred from different in-patient departments every day were taken as study population. Psychiatric diagnoses of the patients were assessed by the specialist psychiatrist as per DSM-5 standards. Results: Among the referred patients (n= 714) 56% were female; 60.4% were aged between 21-60 years; More than half of the…