Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Prepared by the ACLP Guidelines & Evidence-Based Medicine Subcommittee with contributions by experts in subspecialty areas of consultation-liaison psychiatry.

Each quarter since mid-2013, the ACLP has posted commentary on journal articles relevant to important subspecialty areas in C-L psychiatry. Experts in the subspecialties select and review the most significant articles of the quarter.

Below are annotations on articles published during the first three quarters of 2018. For annotations on articles published prior to January 2018, see Past Quarters. For information about the type of study noted in each annotation, see Type of Study below.

THIRD QUARTER 2018 July – September
	CLP Subspecialty:	Annotations by:
2018-Q3	Delirium	Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, MD Lex Denysenko, MD, FACLP
2018-Q3	HIV Psychiatry	John Grimaldi, MD Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FACLP
2018-Q3	Infectious Diseases	Aum Pathare, MD
2018-Q3	Psycho-Oncology & Palliative Care	Elie Isenberg-Grzeda, MD Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD
2018-Q3	Somatic Symptom Disorders	Anna Dickerman, MD
2018-Q3	Transplant Psychiatry	Paula Zimbrean, MD, FACLP
2018-Q3	Women’s Mental Health	Andrew Alkis, MD

SECOND QUARTER 2018 April – June
	CLP Subspecialty:	Annotations by:
2018-Q2	Delirium	Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, MD Lex Denysenko, MD, FACLP
2018-Q2	Emergency Psychiatry	Naomi Schmelzer, MD, MPH Scott Simpson, MD, MPH
2018-Q2	HIV Psychiatry	John Grimaldi, MD Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FACLP
2018-Q2	Infectious Diseases	Aum Pathare, MD
2018-Q2	Psycho-Oncology & Palliative Care	Elie Isenberg-Grzeda, MD Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD
2018-Q2	Suicide	Kemuel Philbrick, MD, FACLP
2018-Q2	Transplant Psychiatry	Paula Zimbrean, MD, FACLP
2018-Q2	Women’s Mental Health	Priya Gopalan, MD

FIRST QUARTER 2018 January – March
	CLP Subspecialty:	Annotations by:
2018-Q1	Emergency Psychiatry	Naomi Schmelzer, MD, MPH Scott Simpson, MD, MPH
2018-Q1	HIV Psychiatry	John Grimaldi MD Mary Ann Cohen MD, FACLP
2018-Q1	Neuropsychiatry	Nicholas Kontos, MD Sean Glass, MD
2018-Q1	Psycho-Oncology & Palliative Care	Elie Isenberg-Grzeda, MD Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD
2018-Q1	Substance Use & Addictive Disorders	Thomas Penders, MS, MD, FACLP S. Alex Sidelnik, MD Diana Robinson, MD
2018-Q1	Transplant Psychiatry	Paula Zimbrean, MD, FACLP
2018-Q1	Women’s Mental Health	Elizabeth Hovis, MD

Type of Study

Beginning with 4th quarter 2017, annotations to an article include its type of study according to common evidence-based medicine (EBM) practice. Study types are:

Systematic review / meta-analysis.
Randomized control trials. Includes quasi-randomized processes such as alternate allocation.
Cohort studies. Non-randomized controlled trials. A prospective, pre-planned study, with predetermined eligibility criteria and outcome measures.
Case control studies. Observational studies with controls; includes retrospective, interrupted time series (a change in trend attributable to the intervention), case control studies, cohort studies with controls, and health services research that includes adjustments for likely confounding variables.
Case series / case reports. Observational studies without controls (e.g., cohort studies without control, case series without controls, case studies without controls).

See Murad MH, Asi N, Alsawas M, Alahdab F: New evidence pyramid. Evid Based Med 2016; 21(4):125-127

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Quarterly Annotations on Journal Articles of Interest

Type of Study