Table 1. Characteristics of Schizophrenia Patients in Four Health Care Settings: Veterans Health Administration (VA), National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), and Two HMO Research Network Sites (HMORN).
| Characteristics | VA (N=119,662) FY05-FY09 |
VA-WEEK (N=47,100) FY05-FY09 |
NAMCS (N=885) FY02-FY09 |
HMORN SITE 1 (N=699) FY02-FY09 |
HMORN SITE 2 (N=4,887) FY02-FY09 |
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| Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | |
| Age in years | 50.6 ± 8.8 | 51.5 ± 8.5 | 43.3 ± 12.2 | 40.5 ± 14.9 | 41.3 ± 12.7 |
| Selim Mental | 1.9 ± 1.1 | 1.2 ± 0.6 | 1.2 ± 0.7 | 1.1 ± 0.9 | 1.5 ± 1.0 |
| Selim Physical | 1.9 ± 1.7 | 0.3 ± 0.8 | 0.1 ± 0.4 | 1.3 ± 1.7 | 1.2 ± 1.8 |
| Selim Total a | 3.8 ± 2.2 | 1.5 ± 1.0 | 1.3 ± 0.8 | 2.4 ± 1.8 | 2.7 ± 2.2 |
| Charlson | 0.8 ± 1.5 | 0.2 ± 0.6 | 0.1 ± 0.5 | 0.8 ± 1.8 | 0.6 ± 1.5 |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 8,331 (7.0) | 3,487 (7.4) | 401 (45.2) | 362 (51.8) | 2,391 (48.9) |
| Male | 111,331 (93.0) | 43,613 (92.6) | 484 (54.8) | 337 (48.2) | 2,496 (51.1) |
| Race | |||||
| White | 69,290 (57.9) | 27,768 (59.0) | 663 (74.1) | 472 (67.5) | 2,043 (41.8) |
| Black | 40,857 (34.1) | 16,138 (34.2) | 177 (21.4) | 96 (13.7) | 2,565 (52.5) |
| Other | 3,225 (2.7) | 1,345 (2.9) | 45 (4.5) | 11 (1.5) | 126 (2.6) |
| Unknown | 6,290 (5.3) | 1,849 (3.9) | 0 (0.0) | 120 (17.2) | 153 (3.1) |
| Hispanic | |||||
| Yes | 8,197 (6.8) | 2,958 (6.3) | 58 (6.6) | 19 (2.7) | 54 (1.1) |
| No | 105,175 (87.9) | 42,293 (89.8) | 767 (86.7) | 347 (49.6) | 1,230 (25.2) |
| Unknown | 6,290 (5.3) | 1,849 (3.9) | 60 (6.8) | 333 (47.6) | 3,603 (73.7) |
| Antipsychotic Types b | |||||
| None | 38,478 (32.2) | 18,536 (39.4) | 196 (22.1) | 361 (58.1) | 3308 (78.1) |
| First Only | 8,979 (7.5) | 3,747 (8.0) | 118 (13.3) | 17 (2.7) | 81 (1.9) |
| Second Only | 47,774 (39.9) | 19,324 (41.0) | 395 (44.6) | 177 (28.5) | 616 (14.5) |
| First & Second | 9,830 (8.2) | 2,621 (5.6) | 81 (9.2) | 21 (3.4) | 48 (1.1) |
| 2 or more Second | 14,601 (12.2) | 2,872 (6.1) | 95 (10.7) | 45 (7.2) | 182 (4.3) |
a
The Selim total index ranges from 0-36 (Selim Physical, range: 0-30; Selim Mental, range: 0-6); higher scores indicate more chronic physical and mental illness. The Charlson comorbidity score ranges from 0-37 with higher scores indicating greater risk of one-year post-discharge mortality.
b
The assessment of antipsychotic types was limited to patients with 1-year of available follow-up data after enrollment for VA, HMORN SITE 1, and HMORN SITE 2; antipsychotic types were measured in a 1-week period for VA-WEEK and NAMCS.