Stroke survivors with severe mental illness: Are they at-risk for increased non-psychiatric hospitalizations?

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study examined outcomes for two groups of stroke survivors treated in Veteran Health Administration (VHA) hospitals, those with a severe mental illness (SMI) and those without prior psychiatric diagnoses, to examine risk of non-psychiatric medical hospitalizations over five years after initial stroke.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study included 523 veterans who survived an initial stroke hospitalization in a VHA medical center during fiscal year 2003. The survivors were followed using administrative data documenting inpatient stroke treatment, patient demographics, disease comorbidities, and VHA hospital admissions. Multivariate Poisson regression was used to examine the relationship between patients with and without SMI diagnosis preceding the stroke an

SUBMITTER: Lilly FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5553814 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature