Comorbidity and Treatment in Older Psychiatric In-patients—A Retrospective Study in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital

Comorbidity and Treatment in Older Psychiatric In-patients—A Retrospective Study in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital

Background: Comorbid somatic diseases increase the death risk and affect the condition, treatment, and prognosis of older psychiatric patients. We investigated the comorbidity and drug treatment in older patients with psychosis.Methods: This retrospective study used data from 3,115 older psychiatric...

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Main Authors: Hongmei Liu, Yuncheng Zhu, Xiaohui Wu, Kan He, Xiaoxiao Wang, Ping Sun, Jie Zhao, Yamin Yao, Juanjuan Ren, Ruizhi Mao, Tao Yang, Lu Yang, Xiujia Sun, Ping Jiang, Chen Zhang, Yiru Fang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
older psychiatric patients
somatic comorbidity
combined drug treatment
polypharmacy
mental illness
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.722329/full

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