Schizophrenia patients discharged against medical advice at a mental hospital in Taiwan

Autor:	Yu-Ting Wung, Feng-Chuan Chen, Cheng-Chung Chen, Ching-Hua Lin
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.drug_class General Neuroscience Atypical antipsychotic Alcohol abuse General Medicine Odds ratio medicine.disease Logistic regression Typical antipsychotic Confidence interval Psychiatry and Mental health Neurology Internal medicine parasitic diseases Medicine Psychiatric hospital Neurology (clinical) business Psychiatry Chi-squared distribution
Zdroj:	Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 64:415-420
ISSN:	1323-1316
DOI:	10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02103.x
Popis:	Aim: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the risk factors associated with discharge against medical advice (AMA) and compare the time to rehospitalization between patients with AMA discharges and those with regular discharges. Methods: All schizophrenia inpatients discharged from a psychiatric hospital between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2006 were monitored. The clinical variables were compared between the patients discharged AMA and those with regular discharges. Logistic regression was used to determine the best predictor for AMA discharge. Times to rehospitalizaton within 15 and 60 days after discharge were measured using the Kaplan–Meier method. Results: Compared to patients with regular discharges, patients discharged AMA were significantly more likely to be male (P = 0.007), to have comorbid alcohol abuse/dependence (P = 0.007), to take typical antipsychotic agents (P = 0.005) and to have shorter lengths of hospital stay (P
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