@article{82d801cf539642c4b6de8a029e9b3049,
title = "Spanish perspective on enlarging a small specialty: The national research network for liaison psychiatry and psychosomatics",
abstract = "The Spanish Research Network in Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (REPEP) comprises 11 centers (nodes), and was one of the successful applicants in a very competitive call for a networking program for the National Institute of Health {"}Carlos III{"} project. This article describes its general objectives and strategic plans. Both qualitative and quantitative results support our statement that this {"}perspective{"} should help to enlarge what is presently a small specialty. Synergies in the network have been potentiated; an ambitious national study on depressive comorbidity in complex medical patients has been executed; and new research and training programs have been initiated.",
author = "A. Lobo and P. Saz and A. Sarasola and A. Bulbena and J. DePablo and E. Garc{\'i}a-Camba and Farr{\'e}, {J. M.} and J. Garc{\'i}a-Campayo and M. Gir{\'o}n and M. Lozano and C. Mingote and Luis Salvador-Carulla and Barcones, {M. F.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by grant PM99-0084 from the Directi{\'o}n General de Ense{\~n}anza Superior e Investigati{\'o}n Cient{\'i}fica and by grant RTIC G03-128 from the Fondo de Investigati{\'o}n Sanitaria, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain . Funding Information: Research activities in LPPUs have also improved considerably 2 and have certainly been a priority in the strategies of the main association for liaison psychiatrists in this country, the Sociedad Espa{\~n}ola de Medicina Psicosom{\'a}tica (SEMP). 4 It was in this context that the first national workgroup appeared, but a crucial turning-point was the birth of the European Consultation–Liaison Workgroup (ECLW) for General Hospital Psychiatry and Psychosomatics. 5 The stimulus provided by the ECLW has been seminal in European countries, and Spanish psychiatrists participated from the first stages. Under this umbrella, a new workgroup was supported and partially funded in 1997 by the Fondo de Investigati{\'o}n Sanitaria (FIS), an agency of the National Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII). The Spanish researchers have participated in important multicenter, national, and European studies of the ECLW workgroup, including the development of the ARSI/ COMPRI/ INTERMED system for the early detection of complex medical patients 6 and the development and implementation of a quality-assurance system (QA), originating in consultation–liaison psychiatry 7 . ",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1176/appi.psy.48.1.46",
language = "English",
volume = "48",
pages = "46--53",
journal = "Psychosomatics",
issn = "0033-3182",
publisher = "American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.",
number = "1",
}
