Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Collaborating with Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
An article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine offers ten practical tips for palliative care clinicians on strengthening collaboration with consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry across inpatient and outpatient settings. The two disciplines frequently care for the same patients—people with serious illness who also experience psychiatric and psychological complexity, neuropsychiatric syndromes, and difficult medical decisions—yet structured collaboration between them remains variable. Written by an interdisciplinary group of palliative care and CL psychiatry clinicians, the tips cover models of collaboration, shared biopsychosocial-spiritual formulation, care of people with serious mental illness, psychotropic management, diagnostic clarification, psychosocial and behavioral interventions, and collaboration around high-stakes medical decisions.