This is a literature review from 2005. [1] 23 studies on the association between non-cognitive psychiatric diseases and the use of general health care services by medical patients admitted to a general hospital were analysed. Only studies with a prospective design and with a correction for possible confounding factors were included. In most studies, only…
This is a paper from 1994 which has since been cited close to 200 times. [1] The authors critically reviewed 26 international and American outcome studies that assessed the effect of psychiatric comorbidity on length of stay for medical/surgical inpatients. Eighty-nine per cent of all studies with sample sizes greater than 110 and 75% of…
This is study from England which was published in 2016. [1] The authors investigated the impact of psychiatric comorbidities on length of stay (LoS) amongst 31,760 heart failurre patients admitted to hospitals in North England between 1st January 2000 and 31st March 2013. Mean LoS in the absence of psychiatric comorbidities was 11.2 days. The…
