Treatment costs and use of community mental health services for schizophrenia by age cohorts.
Treatment costs and use of community mental health services for schizophrenia by age cohorts.
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按年龄组划分的精神分裂症的治疗费用和社区心理健康服务的使用情况。
DOI：
10.1176/ajp.153.7.870
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1996
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Patterson,TL
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Cuffel,BJ;Jeste,DV;Halpain,M;Pratt,C;Tarke,H;Patterson,TL
对精神分裂症的研究往往忽视了晚年使用精神卫生服务的模式和成本。本研究探讨了精神卫生服务的类型和他们的费用为几个年龄定义的队列在一个大型的社区mental health system.MethodThe数据涵盖了所有用户的精神卫生系统包括在圣地亚哥县计费信息系统在1986年和1990年的财政年度。社区精神卫生服务的使用和代码被建模为患者的人口统计学特征，诊断和年龄的函数。患者分为以下年龄组：18-29，30-44，45-54，55-64，65-74，和>或= 75岁的age.ResultsThe精神分裂症的总成本高于其他精神疾病，他们也年龄依赖性。在这两个财政年度，精神分裂症的费用是最年轻和最古老的队列比患者在30-65-years range.ConclusionsThe晚年精神分裂症的经济负担，公共精神卫生系统至少是一样高的精神分裂症在年轻的成年人。
ObjectiveResearch on schizophrenia has tended to ignore patterns and costs of mental health service use in late life. The present study examined the types of mental health services used and their costs for several age-defined cohorts in a large community mental health system.MethodThe data covered all users of the mental health system included in the San Diego county billing information system in fiscal years 1986 and 1990. Community mental health service use and codes were modeled as a function of patient demographic characteristics, diagnosis, and age. The patients were grouped into the following age categories: 18-29, 30-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, and> or= 75 years of age.ResultsThe total costs for schizophrenia were higher than those for other psychiatric disorders, and they were also age dependent. In both fiscal years, the costs of schizophrenia were higher for the youngest and oldest cohorts than for the patients in the 30-65-year range.ConclusionsThe economic burden of late-life schizophrenia to the public mental health system is at least as high as that of schizophrenia in younger adults.