Do psychiatric comorbidities influence inpatient death, adverse events, and discharge after lower extremity fractures?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychiatric comorbidity is known to contribute to illness (the state of feeling unwell/unable to rely on one's body) and increased use of healthcare resources, but the effect on inpatient outcomes in fracture care is relatively unexplored.

Questions/purposes

Our primary null hypothesis is that a concomitant diagnosis of depression, anxiety, dementia, or schizophrenia is not associated with (1) discharge to another care facility rather than home after lower extremity fractures. Secondary study questions address the associations between psychiatric comorbidity and (2) longer inpatient stay and inpatient (3) adverse events; (4) blood transfusion; and (5) mortality after lower extremity fractures.

Methods

Using the National Hospital Discharge Survey database, w

SUBMITTER: Menendez ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773143 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature