The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published a "Framework for Routine Outcome Measurement in Liaison Psychiatry". In it it is suggested to use the IRAC scale (Identify and Rate the Aim of the Contact) to monitor the process and the Clinical Global Impression-Improvement scale (CGI-I) to monitor the outcome of an individual psychiatric liaison referral. Who is the most appropriate person to be asked to complete or rate these particular scales? The psychiatric liaison team who have seen the patient, the referrer, the senior clinician in overall charge of the patient?
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/FRLP02.pdf
I have contacted the main author of the paper to get clarification. According to him, the "most appropriate person to be asked to complete or rate would be the psychiatric liaison team who have seen the patient".
for a screening monitoring a nurse or, in Italy in psychiatry, a psychiatric rehabilitation technician can detect interesting elements
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