Mental disorders around cancer diagnosis and increased hospital admission rate - a nationwide cohort study of Swedish cancer patients

Table 3 Associations of mental disorders around cancer diagnosis with hospital admission, among all cancer patients

	Stress-related mental disorders; HR (95% CI)^a	Other mental disorders^b; HR (95% CI)
Any hospital admission	1.35 (1.28–1.41)	1.07 (1.01–1.13)
Duration of admission
< 4 days	1.25 (1.18–1.33)	1.01 (0.93–1.10)
4–10 days	1.32 (1.25–1.40)	1.04 (0.98–1.10)
> 10 days	1.63 (1.53–1.73)	1.24 (1.15–1.33)
Main discharge diagnosis
External injury	1.89 (1.67–2.14)	1.36 (1.20–1.55)
Infection	1.28 (1.08–1.52)	1.19 (1.00–1.42)
Cardiovascular disease	1.16 (1.03–1.30)	0.91 (0.80–1.03)

^aStress-related mental disorders included depression, anxiety, stress reaction and adjustment disorder, mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use, and somatoform/conversion disorder; HR Hazard ratio, CI Confidence interval; models adjusted for age at cancer diagnosis, sex, calendar period of cancer diagnosis, cancer type, cancer stage at diagnosis, educational level, and history of mental disorders more than 90 days before cancer diagnosis; patients without any mental disorders from 90 days before to 90 days after cancer diagnosis were used as the reference group
^bOther mental disorders included organic, tobacco abuse, schizophrenia, affective, neurotic, physiological/physical factors related, personality, retardation, psychological development, and unspecified disorders

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