Edited by Luis Salvador Carulla
In recognition of this continued challenge BMC Psychiatry has launched this collection of systematic reviews which examine different aspects of psychiatric readmission.
This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process overseen by Guest Editor Luis Salvador Carulla, who declares no competing interests.
High levels of hospital readmission (rehospitalisation rates) is widely used as indicator of a poor quality of care. This is sometimes also referred to as recidivism or heavy utilization. Previous studies have...
Comorbidity between mental and physical disorder conditions is the rule rather than the exception. It is estimated that 25% of adult population have mental health condition and 68% of them suffer from comorbid...
Readmission rate is considered an indicator of the mental health care quality. Previous studies have examined a number of factors that are likely to influence readmission. The main objective of this systematic...
Psychiatric services have undergone profound changes over the last decades. CEPHOS-LINK is an EU-funded study project with the aim to compare readmission of patients discharged with psychiatric diagnoses using...
Psychiatric readmissions have been studied at length. However, knowledge about how environmental and health system characteristics affect readmission rates is scarce. This paper systemically reviews and discus...