Patterns of Health Care Usage in the Year Before Suicide: A Population-Based Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the type and frequency of health care visits in the year before suicide between decedents and controls.

Patients and methods

Cases (n=86) were Olmsted County, Minnesota, residents whose death certificates listed "suicide" as the cause of death from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2009. Each case had 3 age- and sex-matched controls (n=258). Demographic, diagnostic, and health care usage data were abstracted from medical records. Conditional logistic regression was used to analyze differences in the likelihood of having had psychiatric and nonpsychiatric visits in the year before death, as well as in visit types and frequencies 12 months, 6 months, and 4 weeks before death.

Results

Cases and controls did not significantly differ in having had

SUBMITTER: Chock MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999076 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature