Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Collaborative Care Models of the Patient with Renal Disease

There is a high prevalence of psychiatric illness in patients living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but despite this, comorbid psychiatric illness is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, leading to an increase in both morbidity and mortality. Collaboration between psychiatrists and nonpsychiatric physicians and other clinicians can assist in the recognition and management of comorbid psychiatric conditions in patients with CKD, whether …