TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Personality disorder: what predicts acute psychiatric readmissions? JO - Journal of personality disorders A1 - Furnes, Desiré A1 - Gjestad, Rolf A1 - Mehlum, Lars A1 - Hodgekins, Joanne A1 - Kroken, Rune A. A1 - Oedegaard, Ketil A1 - Mellesdal, Liv SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often struggle with chronic suicidal thoughts and behaviors and have frequent acute psychiatric admissions. Prevention of serial admissions and disruptions in long-term treatment strategies is needed. This study explored predictors of how frequently and how quickly patients diagnosed with BPD are readmitted after an index psychiatric admission. The authors identified self-harming behavior as a predictor of readmission frequency, whereas depression and hallucinations and delusions predicted time elapsed between the index admission and the first readmission. The authors recommend that predictors of readmissions should be carefully monitored and treated following index admission.

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LA - en SN - 0885-579X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2019_33_459 ID - ref1 ER -