Risk of Suicide in Patients With Traumatic Injuries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Previous studies suggest that critically injured patients are at increased risk of suicide following discharge, but these have mainly been single-center studies or had limited data on comorbidities and socioeconomic factors.

Objective

To examine the risk of suicide after hospitalization for traumatic injuries.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationwide register-based cohort study used data from 5 Norwegian nationwide health registries and Statistics Norway between 2014 and 2020. Patients registered in the Norwegian Trauma Registry (NTR) for whom trauma team activation at hospital arrival was mandated by national guidelines between 2015 and 2018 were matched to general-population controls on gender and birth year in a 1:10 ratio according to a matched

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12809368 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature