Medical Illness, Past Depression, and Present Depression: A Predictive Triad for In-Hospital Mortality

• Published in: The American journal of psychiatry Vol. 158; no. 1; pp. 43 - 48
• Main Authors: Cavanaugh, Stephanie von Ammon, Furlanetto, Leticia M., Creech, Steven D., Powell, Lynda H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Psychiatric Publishing 01.01.2001; American Psychiatric Association
• Subjects: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Biological and medical sciences; Comorbidity; Depression; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder - epidemiology; Depressive Disorder - mortality; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals; Humans; Illness and personality; Illness, stress and coping; Illnesses; Inpatients - statistics & numerical data; Logistic Models; Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Middle Aged; Mood disorders; Mortality; Multivariate Analysis; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychology and medicine; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Recurrence; Risk Factors; Severity of Illness Index; Sick people; Mood disorder; Human; Prevalence; Disease; Mortality; Prediction; Depression; Hospital environment; Nosology; Revised drafting; Symptomatology; Concomitant disease; Treatment; Criterion; Follow up study; Classification; Clinical investigation; Severity score; Diagnosis; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV; Antecedent; Comparative study; Somatic disease

OBJECTIVE: The authors' objectives were to determine 1) whether major depressive disorder diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria modified for the medically ill predicted in-hospital mortality better than major depressive disorder diagnosed according to inclusive DSM-IV criteria and 2) whether a...