Health system use among patients with mental health conditions in a community based sample in Toronto, Canada: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify hospital and primary care health service use among people with mental health conditions or addictions in an integrated primary-secondary care database in Toronto, Ontario.

Method

This was a retrospective cohort study of adults with mental health diagnoses using data from the Health Databank Collaborative (HDC), a primary care-hospital linked database in Toronto. Data were included up to March 31st 2019. Negative binomial and logistic regression were used to evaluate associations between health care utilization and various patient characteristics and mental health diagnoses.

Results

28,482 patients age 18 or older were included. The adjusted odds of at least one mental health diagnosis were higher among younger patients (18-30 years vs. 81+years a

SUBMITTER: Lazare K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9089864 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature