How much is a hospital visit for mental health?
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| Having a mental health problem is related to greater health-related expenditures. | |
| Medical and surgical hospitalizations with comorbid mental health conditions were associated with longer hospital stay and higher hospital costs. | |
41 Citations | Nearly one sixth hospital outpatient visits for mental disorders can be attributable to NO2. |
14 Citations | Mental health conditions are independently associated with the need for more frequent hospital-based acute care following surgery, thus contributing to added costs of care. |
26 Citations | Mental health care should consist of a careful balance of hospital and community care, with most care provided at or near people’s homes. |
14 Citations | Findings indicate that access to primary care and mental health care co-located at a community-based clinic has reduced the number of emergency room visits and admissions, and length of stay in hospital, for individuals with moderate to serious mental illness. |
20 Citations | However, for patients with new illnesses care is undoubtedly much cheaper, and patients acquire fewer secondary handicaps of their psychotic illness. Hospital beds are still needed for a community mental health service; and in inner city areas, where prevalence rates for psychotic illness are higher, there are often too few beds to run an efficient service so that patients needing admission may either not be admitted at all, or be admitted to a distant hospital. |
11 Citations | Cost of care of schizophrenia is more for those have lower level of functioning and have to visit the hospital more often. |
| The unmet need for mental health treatment in primary care attenders is high. | |
106 Citations | AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS The effects of hospital care and the length of stay is important for mental health policy. |
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