Variations in the associations between psychiatric comorbidity and hospital mortality according to the method of identifying psychiatric diagnoses

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 317-322

  Abrams, Thad E ^a,b   Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary ^a   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hospital mortality; Pneumonia; Psychiatric comorbidity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMONIA; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 39249084311     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0518-z     Document Type: Article

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