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The Undervalued Potential of Medical-Psychiatry Units to Improve Care for People With Severe Mental Illnesses

Marsha Wittink, M.D., M.B.E. [email protected], Aubrey C. Chan, M.D., Ph.D., Susan Padrino, M.D., and Steven M. Silverstein, Ph.D.Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric Services
Volume 74, Number 9
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202200039
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Volume 74 • Number 9 • September 01, 2023
Pages: 991 - 993
PubMed: 36820518

History

Received: 22 January 2022
Revision received: 20 June 2022
Revision received: 10 November 2022
Accepted: 9 December 2022
Published online: 23 February 2023
Published in print: September 01, 2023

Keywords

  1. Interdisciplinary issues
  2. Service delivery systems
  3. Mental health systems and hospitals
  4. Medical morbidity and mortality in psychiatric patients
  5. Patient needs
  6. Multimorbidity

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Marsha Wittink, M.D., M.B.E. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Wittink, Silverstein); Medical-Psychiatry Unit Consortium, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, Fresno, California (Wittink, Chan, Padrino); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City (Chan); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and AbsoluteCare Cleveland, Cleveland (Padrino).
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Aubrey C. Chan, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Wittink, Silverstein); Medical-Psychiatry Unit Consortium, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, Fresno, California (Wittink, Chan, Padrino); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City (Chan); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and AbsoluteCare Cleveland, Cleveland (Padrino).
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Susan Padrino, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Wittink, Silverstein); Medical-Psychiatry Unit Consortium, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, Fresno, California (Wittink, Chan, Padrino); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City (Chan); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and AbsoluteCare Cleveland, Cleveland (Padrino).
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Steven M. Silverstein, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Wittink, Silverstein); Medical-Psychiatry Unit Consortium, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, Fresno, California (Wittink, Chan, Padrino); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City (Chan); Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and AbsoluteCare Cleveland, Cleveland (Padrino).
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Notes

Send correspondence to Dr. Wittink ([email protected]).

Competing Interests

The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

Funding Information

Dr. Chan was supported by NIMH training grant T32MH019113.

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