The burden and trends of psychiatric co-morbidities amongst patients with cardiomyopathy

The impact of psychiatric comorbidities on the length of hospital stay in patients with heart failure

“…We examined the impact of psychiatric co-morbidity on LoS in patients diagnosed with heart failure using an entirely anonymous database of adult patients compiled using the ACALM (Algorithm of Comorbidities, Associations, Length of stay and Mortality) study protocol which has been previously used and described by our group [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] . hospitalizations, only the LoS data for their first hospitalization was included in the study.…”

Ethnic variations in length of hospital stay in patients with atrial fibrillation

“…Completely anonymous patient data was used and processed in accordance with local ethical research and development policy. The methodology has been previously described and used by our group and similar methodology has been used by other groups [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

Psychiatric co-morbidities in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

“…This often attributed the fear of associated risk of sudden death and potential genetic risk to their own children [5,8]. In addition, recent studies [9] have shown an increasing trend in patients with psychiatric comorbidities alongside DCM, and have called for a lower threshold to both assess and detect these co-morbidities as they often go under-detected and under-diagnosed in hospital [10].…”

“…The prevalence data was assembled into five groups to aid analysis of trends over time. This methodology has been described by our group and others previously [1][2][3]9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].Between the years 2000 and 2013, 929,552 patients were admitted, 710 of which (0.08%) were labelled with a diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. The majority of the population were made up of male patients (69%) and the mean age was 54.9 years ± 13.9 years (S.D.).…”