title: Mortality in the long-stay population of all Dutch mental hospitals.
abstract: A study of 1,506 deaths reported over a period of 2 years to the National Psychiatric Case Register of the Netherlands, on the total cohort of 17,211 long-stay patients counted on prevalence day (31 December 1969), showed very much higher death-rates than in the general population. Malignancy and cardiac disease were not so common, while respiratory disease was still common in inpatients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D009426:Netherlands; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000401:mortality; D013405:Suicide