Psychiatric morbidity in a sample of accidents.
The coroner's records of 110 accidental deaths resulting from poisoning, drowning and falling were examined for evidence of mental illness. Sixty per cent were classified as mentally ill before they died, depression, drug dependence and alcoholism accounting for over three-quarters of the diagnoses. Deaths given accident verdicts should be included in the study of the mortality of the mentally ill.
D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003334:Coroners and Medical Examiners; D004332:Drowning / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011041:Poisoning / Q000453:epidemiology