Care of Adults With Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2004 HCUP Fact Book No. 10This Fact Book examines community hospital care for adults 18 years of age and older with mental health and substance abuse MHSA diagnoses. Community hospitals are non-Federal, short-term (or acute care) general and specialty hospitals. They include any type of hospital that is open to the public, such as academic medical centers, medical specialty hospitals, and public hospitals, but they do not include specialty psychiatric or substance abuse treatment facilities.
This Fact Book provides an overview of hospital stays involving MHSA disorders and addresses these key questions:
- What are the common reasons for hospitalization, by type and diagnosis?
- How do stays vary by gender and age?
- How are patients admitted to the hospital?
- What is the mean length of stay?
- How much do hospital stays cost?
- What percentage of hospital resource use is attributable to MHSA disorders?
- Who is billed for hospital stays?
- Where do patients go after they are discharged?
In addition, this Fact Book presents detailed statistics on three special topics related to MHSA hospitalizations:
- Dual diagnosis stays (i.e., the patient has both a substance-related and a mental health disorder).
- Stays related to suicide or attempted suicide.
- Maternal stays complicated by a mental health or substance abuse disorder.
Eleven mutually exclusive categories of MHSA disorders are examined in this Fact Book:
- Mood disorders.
- Substance-related disorders.
- Delirium, dementia, and amnestic and cognitive disorders.
- Anxiety disorders.
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.
- Personality disorders.
- Adjustment disorders.
- Disruptive behavior disorders.
- Impulse control disorders.
- Disorders usually diagnosed in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
- Miscellaneous mental disorders.
Contributor: Don Phillips
