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

General Hospital Psychiatry
Elizabeth KhaykinGail L Daumit

Abstract

Persons with schizophrenia comprise a vulnerable population that may be disproportionately susceptible to medical injuries. The objective of this study was to determine the association between diagnosis of schizophrenia and adverse events during non-psychiatric hospitalizations. We studied U.S. hospital discharges from 2002-2007 using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. We determined the nationally weighted association of schizophrenia with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators after adjusting for patient, hospitalization, and hospital characteristics. There were 269,387 non-psychiatric hospitalizations with schizophrenia, and 37,092,651 without. Hospitalizations with schizophrenia had elevated adjusted odds ratios for PSIs compared with those without schizophrenia for decubitus ulcer (1.43, 95% CI: 1.36-1.51); infection from medical care (1.19, 95% CI: 1.08-1.30); postoperative respiratory failure (1.96, 95% CI: 1.67-2.30); sepsis (1.59, 95% CI: 1.25-2.02); and pulmonary embolism/deep venous thrombosis (1.23, 95% CI: 1.13-1.35). Adjusted odds ratios for iatrogenic pneumothorax (1.12, 95% CI: 0.94-1.33) and postoperative hemorrhage (1.07, 95% CI: 0.88-1.31) were not significantly different in p...Continue Reading

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