title: Suicide after discharge from psychiatric hospital.
abstract: 56 of 287 persons committing suicide between 1992 and 1995 in the region of the city of Basel were identified to have been inpatients in the region in psychiatric hospitals between 1986 and 1995. Fifty of these committed suicide after discharge from hospital - eight times as many as during their time as inpatients. A quarter of these patients killed themselves within the first four weeks after discharge.
authors.affiliation: SUVA Luzern, Germany. ulrike.hoffmannrichter@suva.ch
authors.forename: Ulrike
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hoffmann-Richter
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Känzig
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frei
authors.forename: Asmus
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finzen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000401:mortality; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012306:Risk; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology