Hospital length of stay variation and comorbidity of mental illness: a retrospective study of five common chronic medical conditions

• Egile Nagusiak: Nazlee Siddiqui (Egilea), Mitchell Dwyer (Egilea), Jim Stankovich (Egilea), Gregory Peterson (Egilea), David Greenfield (Egilea), Lei Si (Egilea), Leigh Kinsman (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background With the increasing burden of mental illness globally, it is becoming common for hospitalised patients with chronic medical conditions to have a comorbidity of mental illness. This combination could prolong length of stay (LOS) of this patient cohort. We conducted an investigatio...