Association of psychiatric illness and all-cause mortality in the national department of veterans affairs health care system

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 817-822

  Chwastiak, Lydia A ^a,b,c   Rosenheck, Robert A ^a,b,c   Desai, Rani ^a,b,c   Kazis, Lewis E ^d  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d University School of Public Health the Center for Health Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical comorbidity; Mortality; Psychiatric illness; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO; VETERAN; ADDICTION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOKING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 78049488466     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181eb33e9     Document Type: Article

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