Severe mental illness and mortality of hospitalized ACS patients in the VHA

• Main Authors: Shore James H (Author), Greiner Gwendolyn T (Author), Wang Li (Author), Ho P Michael (Author), Plomondon Mary E (Author), Sakai Joseph T (Author), Fihn Stephan D (Author), Rumsfeld John S (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Severe mental illness (SMI) has been associated with more medical co-morbidity and less cardiovascular procedure use for older patients with myocardial infarction. However, it is unknown whether SMI is associated with increased long...