Table 1.
Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria | Population | |
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1 | All Veterans 65+ years of age during the study period (January 1, 2012, to January 31, 2015) | 8,050,371 |
2 | Study population randomly split in half | 4,025,184 (Modeling) 4,025,187 (Validation) |
3 | Veterans with two or more mental-health related diagnoses or at least one mental-health related drug fill during the study period | 1,161,732 (Modeling) 1,977,147 (Validation) |
4 | Veterans with a sufficient eligibility window to support a randomly selected index date in between 365 days of baseline and 90 days of follow-up | 940,416 (Modeling) 1,427,473 (Validation) |
5 | Veterans that experienced a psychiatric hospitalization during follow-up | 1,936 (Modeling) 1,793 (Validation) |