Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Longitudinal studies of patterns of healthcare contacts in those who die by suicide to identify those at risk are scarce.

Aims

To examine type and timing of healthcare contacts in those who die by suicide.

Method

A population-based electronic case-control study of all who died by suicide in Wales, 2001-2017, linking individuals' electronic healthcare records from general practices, emergency departments and hospitals. We used conditional logistic regression to calculate odds ratios, adjusted for deprivation. We performed a retrospective continuous longitudinal analysis comparing cases' and controls' contacts with health services.

Results

We matched 5130 cases with 25 650 controls (5 per case). A representative cohort of 1721 cases (8605 controls) wer

SUBMITTER: John A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705668 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature