title: The quiet epidemic.
abstract: More than half of patients treated in hospitals may suffer from depression or some other mental disorder that affects their health care. Misdiagnoses, wrong treatments, payment issues and a stigma about mental disorders that persists among the public, insurers and patients even in this enlightened era affect health care in ways we might not even realize.
authors.forename: Gloria Shur
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bilchik
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000639:trends; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006801:Humans; D007358:Insurance, Psychiatric; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015995:Prevalence; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000191:economics; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs