OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, management, and outcome of parasuicide in the south west of England. DESIGN Descriptive analysis using routine information systems. SETTING The former South Western Regional Health Authority, population aged 10 and over: 2.9 million. SUBJECTS These comprised 5080 residents of the South Western Health Region, admitted on 5770 occasions for parasuicid...

BACKGROUND A text messaging service (short message service [SMS]) has the potential to target large groups of people with long-term illnesses such as serious mental disorders, who may have difficulty with treatment adherence. Robust research on the impact of mobile technology interventions for these patients remains scarce. OBJECTIVE The main objective of our study was to investigate the impa...

past few years. In the cost discussion in the psychiatric inpatient setting, length of inpatient stay is of great concern: duration of treatment and cost per case are closely correlated, and costs can be influenced via this indicator because, unlike in somatic medicine, the daily care rates are fixed (1). Within the specialty psychiatry and psychotherapy, the health insurance companies are dema...

BACKGROUND This study examined outcomes for two groups of stroke survivors treated in Veteran Health Administration (VHA) hospitals, those with a severe mental illness (SMI) and those without prior psychiatric diagnoses, to examine risk of non-psychiatric medical hospitalizations over five years after initial stroke. METHODS This retrospective cohort study included 523 veterans who survived a...

BACKGROUND Readmission after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been targeted for public reporting because it is a common, costly, and often preventable outcome. To assist in ongoing efforts to risk-stratify patients and profile hospitals through public reporting of performance measures, we conducted a systematic review to identify models designed to compare hospital rates of readmission or ...

People admitted to medium secure psychiatric care are recognised still be at risk of experiencing adverse outcomes upon discharge. However, little is known about the patients more recently or long-term people many years after The aim this study was assess mortality, conviction and readmission a cohort first admissions discharged from an English unit between July 1983 June 2013. Data on backgrou...