Are comorbid mental disorders in patients with coronary artery disease associated with increased healthcare utilization and costs?
Comorbid mental disorders in CAD patients significantly increase healthcare utilization and costs, highlighting the need for improved diagnosis and psychiatric treatment in this population.
Comorbid mental disorders in CAD patients are associated with an increased healthcare utilization in terms of higher hospital readmission rates and increased overall and outpatient health care costs. From a health care point of view, it is requisite to improve the diagnosis and treatment of comorbid mental disorders in patients with CAD to minimize incremental costs.
Baumeister et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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