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Does psychiatric morbidity predict mortality in continuing care geriatric inpatients?

✍ Scribed by Dr. Ajit Shah; Virach Phongsathorn; Collette George; Celia Bielawska; Cornelius Katona

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 401 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.930080309

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✦ Synopsis

All patients in continuing care geriatric beds in a London Health District were screened for psychiatric morbidity and physical dependency in 1990. This sample was followed up 1 year after screening. Forty-four per cent (32/72) were dead at follow-up. Patients in hospital-based continuing care beds had higher mortality than those in health authority beds in a private nursing home. Dementia, physical dependency and depression measured by Depressive Signs Scale (DSS) were associated with mortality. Using multivariate analysis, to partial out independent effects, depressive signs score measured by the DSS was the only significant predictor of mortality. KEY worn-Depression, dementia, elderly, continuing care, long-stay geriatric patients, mortality.

Studies of acutely hospitalized elderly patients report prevalences of up to 50% for depression (

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