Using electronic health records data to assess comorbidities of substance use and psychiatric diagnoses and treatment settings among adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine prevalences of substance use disorders (SUD) and comprehensive patterns of comorbidities among psychiatric patients ages 18-64 years (N = 40,099) in an electronic health records (EHR) database.

Method

DSM-IV diagnoses among psychiatric patients in a large university system were systematically captured: SUD, anxiety (AD), mood (MD), personality (PD), adjustment, childhood-onset, cognitive/dementia, dissociative, eating, factitious, impulse-control, psychotic (schizophrenic), sexual/gender identity, sleep, and somatoform diagnoses. Comorbidities and treatment types among patients with a SUD were examined.

Results

Among all patients, 24.9% (n = 9984) had a SUD, with blacks (35.2%) and Hispanics (32.9%) showing the highest prevalence. Among patients w

SUBMITTER: Wu LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3581730 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature