First-admission rates of schizophrenia in Denmark, 1980-1997: have they been increasing?
Studies have revealed a decrease in the treated incidence of schizophrenia up to 1990. The reasons remain open to question. The authors examined first-admission rates of schizophrenia during the 1990s in Denmark. The results showed a significant increase in first-admission rates of both sexes. Apparently, the shift of diagnostic classification system in 1994 from ICD-8 to ICD-10 did not explain the increase as a whole, nor did the changing number of psychiatric beds during the decades.
Tsuchiya
Kenji J
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Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute of Basic Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Psychiatric Hospital, Skovagervej 2, DK-8240, Risskov, Denmark.
Munk-Jørgensen
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology*