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The association of psychiatric comorbidities with emergency visits and hospitalisations in adult sickle‐cell patients: a cohort study.
- Source :
- British Journal of Haematology; Apr2020, Vol. 189 Issue 1, pe21-e23, 3p, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Keywords: sickle-cell anemia; mental disorders; addictive behaviour; hospital emergency service; hospitalisation EN sickle-cell anemia mental disorders addictive behaviour hospital emergency service hospitalisation e21 e23 3 03/31/20 20200401 NES 200401 Psychiatric disorders as a whole are associated with increased health consumption in children with sickle-cell disease (SCD) (Myrvik I et al. i , [4], [5]). The cumulative duration of emergency visits and hospitalisations was 14-3 days per patient-year [interquartile range (IQR): 7-6-42-4] in the psychiatric disorders group and 5-7 (IQR: 2-7-11-9) in the control group ( I P i < 0-001, Table). This difference was mostly due to the higher number of emergency visits and of emergency hospitalisations per patient-year in patients with psychiatric comorbidities (Table). [Extracted from the article]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071048
- Volume :
- 189
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Haematology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142455880
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.16417