The Evaluation and Treatment of Somatic Symptom Disorder in Primary Care Practices

Margaret Cheng Tuttle; Domenic J Ciampa; Ellen Godena; Byung Kil Kim; Katherine A Sakmar; Laura Vanwort-Meng; Dhanviney Verma; Theodore A Stern; Albert S Yeung

doi:10.4088/PCC.23f03549

The Evaluation and Treatment of Somatic Symptom Disorder in Primary Care Practices

Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2024 Jan 23;26(1):23f03549. doi: 10.4088/PCC.23f03549.

Authors

Margaret Cheng Tuttle^{1

2}, Domenic J Ciampa³, Ellen Godena⁴, Byung Kil Kim¹, Katherine A Sakmar⁵, Laura Vanwort-Meng¹, Dhanviney Verma¹, Theodore A Stern^{1

6}, Albert S Yeung^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
² Margaret Cheng Tuttle, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, 15 Parkman St, WAC815, Boston, MA 02114 (mtuttle1@mgh.harvard.edu).
³ Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁶ Drs Stern and Yeung are co-senior authors.

PMID: 38277638
DOI: 10.4088/PCC.23f03549

Abstract

The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. During their twice-weekly rounds, Dr Stern and other members of the Consultation Service discuss diagnosis and management of hospitalized patients with complex medical or surgical problems who also demonstrate psychiatric symptoms or conditions. These discussions have given rise to rounds reports that will prove useful for clinicians practicing at the interface of medicine and psychiatry.

Prim Care Companion CNS Disord 2024;26(1):23f03549.

Author affiliations are listed at the end of this article.

MeSH terms

Hospitals, General
Humans
Medically Unexplained Symptoms*
Mental Disorders* / diagnosis
Mental Disorders* / psychology
Mental Disorders* / therapy
Primary Health Care
Psychiatry*
Referral and Consultation