The effect of serious mental illness on the risk of rehospitalization among patients with diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical-surgical rehospitalizations within a month after discharge among patients with diabetes result in tremendous costs to the US health care system.

Objective

The study's aim was to examine whether co-morbid serious mental illness diagnoses (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders) among patients with diabetes are independently associated with medical-surgical rehospitalization within a month of discharge after an initial hospitalization.

Methods

This cohort study of all community hospitals in Washington state evaluated data from 82,060 adults discharged in the state of Washington with any International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis indicating diabetes mellitus between 2010 and 2011. Da

SUBMITTER: Chwastiak LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3997382 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature