Acute Care Utilization in Patients With Concurrent Mental Health and Complex Chronic Medical Conditions

• Main Authors: Karen Abernathy (Author), Jingwen Zhang (Author), Patrick Mauldin (Author), William Moran (Author), Mac Abernathy (Author), Elisha Brownfield (Author), Kimberly Davis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Patients with coexisting mental health disorder and chronic disease are more at risk for poor outcomes, including increased acute care utilization. This study was performed to assess the association of mental health disorders on acute care utilization (emergency department [ED] use, hosp...