Depression predicts future emergency hospital admissions in primary care patients with chronic physical illness
•Depression significantly predicts prospective emergency hospital admissions over 12 months.•Severe depression increases the likelihood of emergency hospital admissions by more than two fold.•Emergency admission in the previous 12 months increases the risk of admission by 3 and a half times.•Having...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Pergamon Press
2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4796037/ |