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Journal Article
THE USE OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AFTER STROKE
2002
Overview
Although psychiatric comorbidity is relevant for a number of diseases, it is often ignored in technology assessment. This study examines the service use rate in mental healthcare facilities and related costs for stroke patients discharged from the University Hospital Maastricht between 1987 and 1995.
Through anonymous record linkage, the medical registration of the hospital and the registration of the Maastricht Mental Health Care Register were linked.
Linkage succeeded for 16% of the 2,020 stroke patients, indicating that these patients used mental health services during a 10-year period around the stroke (+/- 5 years). Of the users' group, 88% had a mental healthcare contact following stroke. Regression analysis shows that age, length of hospital stay, and mental healthcare contact before stroke are associated with mental healthcare use after stroke. It is remarkable in that there is already an increase in the consumption of mental health care in the prodromal phase just before the stroke occurred. When comparing costs before and after stroke, the outpatient costs increased on average by [symbol: see text] 42.64, semi-institutionalized costs increased on average by [symbol: see text] 208.10, and intramural costs by [symbol: see text] 1,189.21. The total increase in costs is [symbol: see text] 1,439.95. For all mental healthcare facilities, the increase in costs is significant.
No study so far has revealed the total costs of mental healthcare facilities following stroke. Extrapolating these costs to the Netherlands illustrates that stroke patients have a high psychiatric comorbidity, inducing about 1.3% of total mental healthcare costs.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Community Mental Health Centers - economics
/ Community Mental Health Centers - utilization
/ Dementia
/ Female
/ Geriatric Psychiatry - economics
/ Germany
/ Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data
/ Hospitals, Psychiatric - economics
/ Hospitals, Psychiatric - utilization
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Mental Health Services - economics
/ Mental Health Services - utilization
/ Psychiatric Department, Hospital - economics
/ Psychiatric Department, Hospital - utilization
/ Stroke
/ Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system
