Health-economic outcomes in hospital patients with medical-psychiatric comorbidity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital inpatients often experience medical and psychiatric problems simultaneously. Although this implies a certain relationship between healthcare utilization and costs, this relationship has never been systematically reviewed.

Objective

The objective is to examine the extent to which medical-psychiatric comorbidities relate to health-economic outcomes in general and in different subgroups. If the relationship is significant, this would give additional reasons to facilitate the search for targeted and effective treatments for this complex population.

Method

A systematic review in Embase, Medline, Psycinfo, Cochrane, Web of Science and Google Scholar was performed up to August 2016 and included cross-references from included studies. Only peer-reviewed em

SUBMITTER: Jansen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849295 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature