Healthcare utilisation for eating disorders among patients with depression: a cross-sectional study in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Objectives:Although depressed patients may have a comorbid eating disorder (ED), to date, no study has focused on healthcare utilisation among this population. This study was designed to investigate the characteristics of healthcare service utilisation among depressed patients with ED.

Design:A cross-sectional study.

Setting:This population-based study used claims data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research database between 2001 and 2012.

Participants:The study involved 1270 participants. These included 254 depressed individuals with ED and 1016 propensity score-matched depressed individuals without ED.

Outcome measures:We tracked each patient for a 1 year period to evaluate their healthcare service utilisation, inclu

SUBMITTER: Yan CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937097 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature