Effect of Psychiatric Illness on Acute Care Utilization at End of Life From Serious Medical Illness

Little is known about psychiatric illness and utilization of end-of-life care. We hypothesized that preexisting psychiatric illness would increase hospital utilization at end of life among patients with chronic medical illness due to increased severity of illness and care fragmentation. We reviewed...

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Published in:	Journal of pain and symptom management Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 176 - 185.e1
Main Authors:	Lavin, Kyle, Davydow, Dimitry S., Downey, Lois, Engelberg, Ruth A., Dunlap, Ben, Sibley, James, Lober, William B., Okimoto, Kelson, Khandelwal, Nita, Loggers, Elizabeth T., Teno, Joan M., Curtis, J. Randall
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2017 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Acute services Anesthesia & Perioperative Care Chronic Disease - mortality Chronic Disease - psychology Chronic Disease - therapy Chronic illnesses Classification Cohort Studies Computerized medical records Critical Care - utilization Death & dying Disease Emergency Medical Services - utilization Emergency services End of life decisions end-of-life care Epidemiology Female Health records Health services Hospice care Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Illnesses Intensive care Knowledge utilization Life Male Medical conditions Medical records Mental disorders Mental Disorders - complications Mental Disorders - mortality Mental Disorders - therapy Mental health Middle Aged Morbidity multimorbidity Nursing homes Pain Medicine Palliative care Palliative Care - psychology Palliative Care - utilization Patients psychiatric illness Psychiatric-mental health nursing Regression Analysis Risk Factors Segmentation Severity Severity of Illness Index Terminal Care - psychology Terminal Care - utilization Palliative care multimorbidity epidemiology psychiatric illness end-of-life care
ISSN:	0885-3924, 1873-6513, 1873-6513
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