The study pulled data from Holmusk’s NeuroBlu database, which includes de-identified electronic health records from more than 1.4 million patients receiving behavioral health treatment across over 30 health systems, according to a March 28 news release.
Researchers used data from more than 36,000 patients and found that patients who experienced severe illness and instability within the first two months of clinical encounter had a significantly higher risk of hospitalization within six months.
These findings remained consistent across age and gender groups and a range of diagnoses, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The study, which was published March 23 in The Lancet Psychiatry, was the first to explore whether early clinical trajectory could predict psychiatric hospitalization, the release said.
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