The Multidisciplinary Approach to Mood Disorders

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This is an original, plain-language summary based on the abstract and bibliographic record on Hrcak. It is not a reproduction of the article or a full-text review.

This paper describes an audit of multidisciplinary care in the Short Stay Psychiatric Unit at Mater Dei Hospital in Malta. It asks whether working across professional disciplines is associated with patient outcomes in mood disorders.

Approach

The audit covered patients whose first admission to the unit was in 2008 and who were diagnosed with a mood disorder. Outcomes were assessed by whether a further admission occurred and, where it did, the number of days until the second admission.

Main points

The abstract explains the audit's purpose and outcome measures but does not report the results. It supports a description of how the service was evaluated, not a claim that multidisciplinary care reduced admissions.

Important limitations

The accessible abstract does not provide the sample size, readmission rates, comparison groups or statistical analysis. Readmission alone cannot describe every aspect of recovery, and an audit cannot automatically establish that a particular care model caused an outcome. No numerical benefit is inferred here.

This summary is for academic information and is not personal medical advice.

Citation and original source

Falzon Aquilina F, Agius M, Sharma K, Grech A. The multidisciplinary approach to mood disorders. Psychiatria Danubina. 2014;26(Suppl 1):222-225.

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Source reviewed: 6 November 2026.