TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of psychiatric comorbidity on length of hospital stay for medical/surgical patients
T2 - A preliminary report
AU - Fulop, G.
AU - Strain, J. J.
AU - Vita, J.
AU - Lyons, J. S.
AU - Hammer, J. S.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - The impact of psychiatric comorbidity on the length of hospital stay was addressed in a study of all medical/surgical patients discharged in 1984 from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (N = 37,370) and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago (N = 21,889). At both hospitals the mean ± SD length of stay of the patients with psychiatric comorbidity was significantly longer than that of the other patients: 19.8 ± 33.3 versus 9.2 ± 15.3 days at Mount Sinai Hospital and 13.7 ± 27.7 versus 8.3 ± 13.2 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Early identification of patients with psychiatric comorbidity would permit appropriate psychosocial intervention, which might shorten their hospital stays.
AB - The impact of psychiatric comorbidity on the length of hospital stay was addressed in a study of all medical/surgical patients discharged in 1984 from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City (N = 37,370) and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago (N = 21,889). At both hospitals the mean ± SD length of stay of the patients with psychiatric comorbidity was significantly longer than that of the other patients: 19.8 ± 33.3 versus 9.2 ± 15.3 days at Mount Sinai Hospital and 13.7 ± 27.7 versus 8.3 ± 13.2 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Early identification of patients with psychiatric comorbidity would permit appropriate psychosocial intervention, which might shorten their hospital stays.
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U2 - 10.1176/ajp.144.7.878
DO - 10.1176/ajp.144.7.878
M3 - Article
C2 - 3111277
AN - SCOPUS:0023279343
SN - 0002-953X
VL - 144
SP - 878
EP - 882
JO - American Journal of Psychiatry
JF - American Journal of Psychiatry
IS - 7
ER -