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Psychiatric symptoms as predictors of mortality in continuing care geriatric inpatients

โœ Scribed by Dr. Ajit Shah; Virach Phongsathorn; Collette George; Celia Bielawsk; Cornelius Katona

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
626 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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โœฆ Synopsis

All patients ( N = 74) in continuing care geriatric beds in a London health district were screened for psychiatric morbidity and physical dependency in 1990. The sample was followed up I year after screening. forty-four per cent were dead at follow-up. The relationship between individual psychiatric symptoms and mortality is reported. Using these associations, two scales to predict mortality were constructed and their usefulness is discussed.

KEY WORDS-Mortality, depressive symptoms, continuing care, geriatrics, scales.

Studies of acutely hospitalized elderly patients report prevalences of up to 50% for depression (Koenig et a[., 1988a; O'

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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