Primary care consultation liaison and the rate of psychiatric hospitalizations: a countrywide study in Chile

• Main Authors: Rafael Sepúlveda (Author), Pedro Zitko (Author), Jorge Ramírez (Author), Niina Markkula (Author), Rubén Alvarado (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Pan American Health Organization, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives. To assess the quality of consultation liaison across all primary health care centers in Chile, and its potential relationship with the psychiatric hospitalization rate. Methods. We carried out a countrywide ecological cross-sectional study on 502 primary health centers in 275 municipalit...