[Psychiatric consultation service in a large medical clinic: evaluation over a 3-year period].

The report is based on 1,165 medical inpatients seen by the consultant psychiatrist within a 3-year period. During the last year evaluated for this study psychiatric consultation was requested for 2.8% of the total non-psychiatric hospital admissions. Questions to the consultant are most often referred to psychogenic factors, depression and suicidality. The most frequent psychiatric diagnosis was neuroses/reactions/ personality disorders followed by suicidality, organic psychoses, psychosomatic illnesses, endogenous psychoses, somatopsychic syndromes and addictions. Further details and problems in psychiatric consultation are discussed.