Author Interviews, JAMA, Mental Health Research / 19.03.2017
Marked Increase in Premature Mortality After First Psychiatric Admission
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Florian Walter MSc
Centre for Mental Health and Safety
University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Dr Roger Webb PhD and
Reader in Mental Health Epidemiology
Senior Postgraduate Research Tutor
Division of Psychology and Mental Health
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
The University of Manchester
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Mental disorders are associated with an elevated risk of premature mortality, and risk is especially heightened soon after discharge from inpatient psychiatric services. Previous studies have focused on single causes of death, whereas our study considered a comprehensive array of cause-specific mortality outcomes.
We analysed over 1.7 million Danish residents in our national interlinked registry study, which was conducted collaboratively by the Centre of Mental Health and Safety, University of Manchester, UK and the National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. We compared the risk of dying from specific natural and unnatural causes of death among patients following their first discharge from inpatient psychiatric care versus people not admitted.
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