Background Psychiatric comorbidity is highly prevalent in general medicine inpatient
settings and is associated with increased duration and cost of hospitalization. Objective To …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence, risk factors and recognition rates of depressive
disorders among inpatients of tertiary general hospitals in Shanghai, China. METHODS: A …

Psychiatric disorders of all types are more common in people with physical illness compared
with the general population. Depression is the most common disorder, accounting for …

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to compare the frequency of anxiety symptoms
between patients with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) and generalized epilepsy (GE) …

Rationale: Adults with chronic lower respiratory disease differ in their barriers to smoking
cessation but also suffer from tobacco-related health concerns, which may motivate quit …

Background Proactive consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry has been shown to reduce
hospital length of stay (LOS), increase psychiatric CL consult rate, and improve hospital staff …

Aims: To describe the distribution of subjective health complaints (SHCs) in a Danish
working population and the associations between SHC and register based sickness …

Integrated medical and psychiatric hospital units hold great promise for improving the value
and quality of care for patients with severe mental illness and concomitant acute medical …

OBJECTIVE: To determine prevalence rates and identify patient characteristics associated
with depression, alcohol use disorders and nicotine dependence among individuals …

Objective: To quantify the burden of mental illness and addiction among high-costing users
of medical services (HCUs) using population-level data from Ontario, and compare to a …