The psychiatric consultation and liaison service at the Hospital of Psychiatry of the Municipal Hospital in Gorlitz, Germany

The Psychiatric Hospital at the Municipal (General) Hospital in Gorlitz, Germany, was the only Department of Psychiatry in a non-University (general) hospital in the newly integrated German provinces who were originally part of the so-called ''German Democratic Republic'' before the re-unification of Germany, to participate in the German collective study on ''Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Consultation and Liaison Service in German General Hospitals - A Multicentre Empirical Study to Assess and Evaluate Existing Structures and Services''. This study is an independent part project that includes specific questions forming part of the European collective study on ''Effectiveness of Mental Health Consultation and Liaison Service Delivery in the General Hospital''.