General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 419-425 , July 2010

National estimates of adverse events during nonpsychiatric hospitalizations for persons with schizophrenia

  • Elizabeth Khaykin, Ph.D., M.H.S., S.M.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel.: +1 410 502 8893; fax: +1 410 955 0476.
    • ,
  • Daniel E. Ford, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Division of Adult Critical Care, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Lisa Dixon, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC), VA Capitol Health Care Network, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Gail L. Daumit, M.D., M.H.S.

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Baltimore, MD, USA

Received 5 February 2010 ,Accepted 21 April 2010.

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☆ Disclosure of funding: This study was funded through the NARSAD Young Investigator Award and there are no conflicts of interest or financial disclosures.

☆☆ A version of “National Estimates of Adverse Events in Persons With Schizophrenia” was presented on April 8, 2009, in B14B Hampton House, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health as part of a Department of Mental Health seminar. The data presented was not updated for the latest available year of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample.

PII: S0163-8343(10)00096-4

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.04.006

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 419-425 , July 2010

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