The revised guideline on consultation-liaison psychiatry of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association

Authors discuss the revised guideline on consultation-liaison(CL) psychiatry which aims at improving the quality and effectiveness of psychiatric consultations in general and academic hospital, as well to set standards for training in CL psychiatry. Contrary to the first edition of the guideline, the revised guideline did not exclusively focus on CL psychiatry in adult and geriatric patients, but also CL psychiatry in children and adolescents when evidence was available. The new approach to guidelines development makes the guideline for CL psychiatry clinically more relevant than the previous version.