Somatic Care with a Psychotic Disorder. Lower Somatic Health Care Utilization of Patients with a Psychotic Disorder Compared to Other Patient Groups and to Controls Without a Psychiatric Diagnosis

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• 作者：Wilma Swildens ; Fabian Termorshuizen…
• 刊名：Mental Health Services Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：43
• 期：5
• 页码：650-662
• 全文大小：677 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Public Health
  Clinical Psychology
  Psychiatry
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3289
• 卷排序：43

文摘

Patients with non-affective psychotic disorders (NAPD) face higher risk of somatic problems and early natural death compared to the general population. Therefore, treatment guidelines for schizophrenia and psychosis stress the importance of monitoring somatic risk factors. This study examined somatic Health Care utilization (HCu) of patients with NAPD compared to non-psychiatric controls and patients with depression, anxiety or bipolar disorders using a large Health Insurance database. Results show lower specialist somatic HCu of patients with NAPD compared to matched controls and also lower percentages for prescribed somatic medication and general practitioner consultations for patients aged ≥60 years and after longer illness duration.KeywordsMental healthSchizophreniaSomatic Health Care utilization