Garantia de qualidade em Psiquiatria de Ligação

• Author(s): Cardoso, G ; Maia, T ; Luis, A ; ECLW
• Date: 1997
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.10/252
• Origin: Repositório do Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca
• Subject(s): Garantia de qualidade; Psiquiatria
• Document Type: Article
• Language: Portuguese

Description

As far as we know, there is no experience of quality management in mental health care in Portugal. This study fills a gap in the area of consultation-liaison psychiatry. Due to its multidisciplinarity and to the complexity of the problems it deals with, consultation-liaison psychiatry seems a privileged field for the development of this kind of programme. The authors describe the different steps necessary for the implementation of a quality management study in one of the national centres and report some preliminary results that show the success it has attained.