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BMJ Open
January 2025
Graduate School of Health Management, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objective: This study assessed whether patients with potentially preventable emergency admissions had limited access to outpatient care immediately before admission and whether they received appropriate outpatient care during their outpatient visits.
Design: Retrospective observational study.
Setting: Linked outpatient and inpatient care records obtained from a nationwide claims database in Japan.
Personal Ment Health
February 2025
Fédération Régionale de Recherche en Santé Mentale et Psychiatrie des Hauts-de-France, Saint-André-Lez-Lille, France.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a frequent disorder with high mental health care utilization. This study aims to describe BPD hospitalization in France: using the French national hospitals database from 2013 to 2022, regarding sociodemographic factors and hospitalization characteristics. In total, this study included 121,235 patients.
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January 2025
Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
The covid-19 pandemic was associated with an unprecedented increase in alcohol consumption and associated morbidity, including hospitalizations for alcohol withdrawal. Clinicians based in hospitals must be ready to identify, assess, risk-stratify, and treat alcohol withdrawal with evidence based interventions. In this clinically focused review, we outline the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, screening, assessment, and treatment of alcohol withdrawal in the general hospital population.
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January 2025
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: The underrepresentation of acute psychiatric settings in epilepsy research presents a barrier to delivering equitable healthcare for people with comorbid epilepsy and severe mental illness. We aimed to report the prevalence of epilepsy among people receiving acute psychiatric inpatient care and examine the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics influencing their treatment outcomes.
Methods: We analysed electronic patient records to estimate the lifetime prevalence of epilepsy in a retrospective cohort of 9,237 people admitted to psychiatric inpatient wards in South London between 2015 and 2019.
PLOS Glob Public Health
January 2025
Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Complex regional pain syndrome is a chronic pain disorder marked by symptoms such as swelling, impaired motor function, and sympathetic dysfunction. Our primary objective was to determine the total number of complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS-1) emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations by race/ethnicity, as well as to assess sex and age distributions by race/ethnicity. Secondary objectives were to examine whether race/ethnicity, as well as select characteristics, are associated with hospitalization and longer length of stay.
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