Beeler PE, et al. – Researchers analyzed a cohort of 253,009 multimorbid inpatients aged ≥ 18 years at an academic medical center to determine whether ancillary depression is related to increased length of stay (LOS) and readmissions. Sixteen main diagnosis clusters in which ancillary depression was correlated with significant LOS progress—with associations most robust for “failure and rejection of transplanted organs and tissues”, “other noninfective gastroenteritis and colitis”, and “other soft tissue disorders, not elsewhere classified”—were identified. Upon multivariable logistic and Poisson regression, independent relationships of ancillary depression with elevated readmission odds and repetitions at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months were shown. Thus, ancillary depression was independently related to increased LOS and more readmissions over a wide range of multimorbid inpatients.