Identification of psychiatric patients with high mortality and low medical utilization: a population-based propensity score-matched analysis

Abstract Background The decreased life expectancy and care costs of mental disorders could be enormous. However, research that compares mortality and utilization concurrently across the major category of mental disorders is absent. This study investigated all-cause mortality and medical utilization...

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Main Authors: Jong-Yi Wang, Cheng-Chen Chang, Meng-Chen Lee, Yi-Jhen Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-020-05089-6