Premature Mortality Among Patients Recently Discharged From Their First Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Nationwide cohorts provide sufficient statistical power for examining premature, cause-specific mortality in patients recently discharged from inpatient psychiatric services.

Objective

To investigate premature mortality in a nationwide cohort of patients recently discharged from inpatient psychiatric treatment at ages 15 to 44 years.

Design, setting, and participants

This single-cohort design included all persons born in Denmark (N = 1 683 385) between January 1, 1967, and December 31, 1996. Exactly 48 599 of these Danish residents were discharged from an inpatient psychiatric unit or ward on or after their 15th birthday, which took place during this study's observation period from January 1, 1982, through December 31, 2011. This group of patients was follo

SUBMITTER: Walter F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5417353 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature