Mortality psychiatric specialist care in the Lundby study. Age-standardized death rates in different forms of psychiatric services in a total population investigated during a 25-year period.
In the present study a general population cohort of 3,563 persons has been observed concerning psychiatric attendance during a 25-year period, and the mortality experience among patients of different levels of psychiatric care has been studied. The relative overall death risk compared with that of the total Lundby population was found to be 1.9 in men and 1.5 in women with a background of any kind of psychiatric contact. Among former or present inpatients at mental hospitals the overall mortality rate in both sexes was about twice as high as that found in the total population. In men who had been inpatients at psychiatric departments the relative death risk from all causes of death was 4.8, whereas the corresponding risks among men and women who had only come into contact with psychiatric services as outpatients were 1.3 and 1.1, respectively. The relative violent death risk in men with a psychiatric contact was 4.6 compared with the total male population.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D014754:Violence