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Mortality in a cohort of long-term users of community psychiatric services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

E. Sturt
E. Sturt*
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London
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1Address for correspondence: Dr E. Sturt, MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

A cohort of 181 users of community psychiatric services in Camberwell with at least one year's history of contact was traced for two years following a census day. Four of the eight patients who had been given a primary diagnosis of an organic condition dicd during this period. For the others the population-standardized mortality risk was 2·4, similar to rates previously found for in-patients with acute disorders. The causes of death were those that are common in the population. Only one suicide was recorded.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 441 - 446
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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