Open Access<p>Physical Comorbidities are Independently Associated with Higher Rates of Psychiatric Readmission in a Chinese Han Population</p>
Author(s) -
Changzheng Yang,
Xiaomei Zhong,
Hang Zhou,
ZhiYing Wu,
Min Zhang,
Yuping Ning
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s261223
Subject(s) - medicine , comorbidity , psychiatry , depression (economics) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatric comorbidity , psychosis , bipolar disorder , population , proportional hazards model , lithium (medication) , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
In people with psychosis, physical comorbidities are highly widespread and leading contributors to the untimely death encountered. Readmission rates in psychiatric patients are very high. Somatic comorbidities could be one of the considerable risk factors for psychiatric rehospitalization. Nevertheless, much less is known about the relation between physical comorbidities and psychiatric readmission. We aimed to investigate the association between physical comorbidities and psychiatric readmission in Han Chinese patients with psychiatric disorders.