For most people, a regular monthly 10 min consultation was helpful and constructive.
after the clerkship, students were more prone to agree that psychiatric consultation is often helpful either to medical or surgical patients (93.4 to 96%, p -.03), as well as to most people who receive psychiatric treatment (88.8% to 95.4%, p <.0001; see Table 2).
Research shows that liaison consultation of a psychiatrist is helpful [ 26, 27].
More preparation time before actual patient consultation, could be helpful in optimally using the CDSS, while at the same time focusing more at the patient during actual consultation.
Intraoperative consultation may be helpful for confirmation of the negative resection stump.
Written materials, web links, or decision aids given prior to, or used during, the consultation can be helpful [ 58- 60].
However, Cegala et al. suggest that a chronological order of recommendations, following the course of the consultation, would be helpful [ 55].
A recent randomized trial of ethics consultation in the ICU has found that consultation shortens the duration of life sustaining medical therapies in patients who ultimately have these therapies withdrawn and that most families found the consultation to be helpful [ 14].
We suggest that greater use of the detailed analysis of video recordings of real (as opposed to simulated) consultations may be helpful, exposing learners as consulters and critical observers to the kinds of complexities that our research highlights.
Our study has found that having a reminder for turning off the mobile phone is helpful in decreasing the number of interruptions during consultation.
