Researchers from CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research/Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) quantified, for the first time, the hospitalizations for bipolar disorder and the number of patients admitted in Portuguese public hospitals, using ‘BigData’.
Manuel Gonçalves Pinho, a researcher at CINTESIS/FMUP, told Agência LUSA that bipolar disorder is responsible for 2600 hospitalizations per year, on average, in Portugal and every day there are seven hospitalizations, on average, in national public hospitals, due to this mental illness