Suicide in psychiatric patients: age distribution.
In eight years, 21183 San Diego County residents killed themselves. Of these, 52 had been at some time patients of one private psychiatric group. The suicide rate increased with age for the county population but not for the psychiatric patients. This difference was highly significant. Although older people generally are at greater risk for suicide, older psychiatric patients may be more responsive to treatment.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*