Place of death and other factors associated with unnatural mortality in patients with serious mental disorders: population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with serious mental disorders have poorer healthcare outcomes at the end of life and are at greater risk of dying from unnatural causes.AimsTo explore place of death and demographic and clinical correlates of unnatural causes of death in patients with serious mental disorders.

Method

Routinely collected patient data were used to explore bivariate and adjusted associations between covariates and natural/unnatural cause of death.

Results

In multivariable analysis (n = 1029), dying at home (odds ratio (OR) = 1.87, 95% CI 1.03-3.40), 'other' locations (OR = 16.50, 95% CI 7.57-36.00), younger age (OR = 17.26, 95% CI 8.28-36.00) and a diagnosis other than schizophrenia spectrum disorder (OR = 1.69, 95% CI 1.04-2.73) were correlates of unnatural cause of

SUBMITTER: Wilson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6401542 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature