Excess health care service utilization and costs associated with underrecognition of psychiatric comorbidity in a medical/surgical inpatient setting

Psychiatric comorbidity is common among chronically medically ill populations and the presence of psychiatric conditions tends to be associated with increased costs and excess utilization of general medical services. The purpose of this pilot investigation was to determine whether differences in non...

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Published in:	Quality management in health care Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 98 - 102
Main Authors:	Borckardt, Jeffrey J, Madan, Alok, Barth, Kelly, Galloway, Sarah, Balliet, Wendy, Cawley, Patrick J, Pelic, Christine, Hargett, Steve, Rublee, Steve, McLeod-Bryant, Stephen, Malcolm, Robert, Uhde, Thomas
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies 01-04-2011
Subjects:	Comorbidity Costs Health administration Health care expenditures Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data Health Services - economics Health Services - utilization Hospitalization Hospitalization - economics Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Inpatient care Length of stay Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data Mental Disorders - complications Pilot Projects Psychiatry Studies
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