Hongmei Liu, Yuncheng Zhu, Xiaohui Wu, Kan He, Xiaoxiao Wang, Ping Sun, Jie Zhao, Yamin Yao, Juanjuan Ren, Ruizhi Mao, Tao Yang, Lu Yang, Xiujia Sun, Ping Jiang, Chen Zhang, Yiru Fang
Background: Comorbid somatic diseases increase the death risk and affect the condition, treatment, and prognosis of older psychiatric patients. We investigated the comorbidity and drug treatment in older patients with psychosis. Methods: This retrospective study used data from 3,115 older psychiatric in-patients hospitalized at the Shanghai Mental Health Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China discharged from 2005 to 2015. Descriptive analyses of patients' age, sex, treatment drugs, diagnoses (based on ICD-10), and time trend were performed...
2021: Frontiers in Psychiatry