Acute general hospital admissions in people with serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Serious mental illness (SMI, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder) is associated with worse general health. However, admissions to general hospitals have received little investigation. We sought to delineate frequencies of and causes for non-psychiatric hospital admissions in SMI and compare with the general population in the same area.

Methods

Records of 18 380 individuals with SMI aged ⩾20 years in southeast London were linked to hospitalisation data. Age- and gender-standardised admission ratios (SARs) were calculated by primary discharge diagnoses in the 10th edition of the World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codes, referencing geographic catchment data.

Results

Commonest dischar

SUBMITTER: Jayatilleke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6236443 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature