Risk of suicide attempts and self-harm after 1.4 million general medical hospitalizations of men with mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The short-term risk of suicide after medical hospital discharge is four times higher among men compared with women. As previous work has identified female-specific antecedents of suicide-related behavior after medical hospitalization of women with serious mental illness, we examined predictors among a similar population of men with multimorbidity.

Methods

Classification and regression tree (CART) models were developed and validated using electronic health records (EHRs) from 1,423,161 medical (non-psychiatric) hospitalizations of men ≥ 18-years-old with an existing diagnosis of a depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, or chronic psychosis. Hospitalizations occurred between 2009 and 2017. Risk groups were evaluated using an independent testing set. The primary outc

SUBMITTER: Thiruvalluru RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10395648 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature