Suicide Methods and Specific Types of Accidental Death and Fatal Poisoning Among Discharged Psychiatric Patients: A National Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Persons discharged from inpatient psychiatric units are at greatly elevated risk of dying unnaturally. We conducted a comprehensive examination of specific causes of unnatural death post-discharge in a national register-based cohort. A cohort of 1,683,645 Danish residents born 1967-1996 was followed from their 15th birthday until death, emigration, or December 31, 2011, whichever came first. Survival analysis techniques were used to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) comparing risk for persons with and without psychiatric admission history in relation to (a) suicide method, (b) accidental death type, (c) fatal poisoning type, and (d) homicide. More than half (52.5%, n = 711) of all unnatural deaths post-discharge were fatal poisonings, compared with less than a fifth (17.0%, n = 1,012)

SUBMITTER: Walter F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193537 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature