Mental illness comorbidity significantly impacts surgical outcomes for emergency surgical patients.
Kate A McBrideJudith TorzilloRebecca DavisDaniel SteffensTim WandRobert D SandersNick GlozierMichael J SolomonPublished in: ANZ journal of surgery (2024)
Patients with mental illness are significantly more likely to have emergency surgery including presenting to the ED with more acute physical illness and to experience worse surgical outcomes compared to other surgical patients for every measure analyzed except mortality. There is considerable opportunity to further investigate how these differences might be improved.
Keyphrases
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