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The treatment of psychiatric illnesses, prevalent in the general hospital, requires broadly trained providers with expertise at the interface of psychiatry and medicine. Since each hospital operates under different economic constraints, it is difficult to establish an appropriate ratio of such providers to patients.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Thomas Jefferson University, Dept. of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 1020 Sansom St., Suite 1652, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. elisabeth.kunkel@jefferson.edu
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