What are the characteristics of people diagnosed with schizophrenia who are readmitted to hospital?

Short-term readmissions represented the largest single category, with almost 12% of individuals being readmitted within 30 days of discharge from hospital. This is also demonstrated in Figure 1, which allows for an examination of the hospital readmission rate for schizophrenia over a one-year period. After one week, more than 4% of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia had been readmitted to hospital for a mental illness. The proportion rises most quickly within the first 30 days of follow-up, and then more gradually to about 28% at 180 days and about 38% after one year.