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Volume 170 - April 1997

Contents

Page 7 of 12

Correspondence

Columns

  • Suicide and the cost-effectiveness of antidepressants

  • J. A. Henry
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    02 January 2018, p. 88
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  • Total mortality in people admitted to a psychiatric hospital

  • Vidje Hansen, Egil Arnesen, Bjarne K. Jacobsen
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 January 2018, pp. 186-190
  • Background

    The aim was to document the mortality of psychiatric patients within a service system characterised by a low beds-to-population ratio.

    Method

    All patients admitted to one psychiatric hospital were followed from date of first admission after 31 July 1980 until 31 December 1992 with regard to death, by linkage to the Norwegian Central Register of Persons. Age-adjusted total mortality rates and standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) compared with the general population were computed.

    Results

    Mortality rates were highest in men, and increased with age in both sexes. SMRs were highest in the younger age-groups, and the overall SMR was significantly higher for men than for women. Mortality was highest during the first year after admission for both sexes and was higher than in the general population in all diagnostic groups.

    Conclusions

    The mortality of psychiatric patients is still unsatisfactorily high, and men constitute a special high-risk group.

Correspondence

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  • Costing community care

  • H. J. Salize, W. Rössler
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    03 January 2018, p. 483
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  • Lipid-lowering drugs and mortality

  • F. Corrigan
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    03 January 2018, p. 289
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  • Suicide in China

  • V. Pearson, S. Lee
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    03 January 2018, p. 387
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  • Mass hysteria

  • R. Bartholomew
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    03 January 2018, pp. 387-388
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  • Perpetrators of child sexual abuse

  • S. E. Romans, J. L. Martin
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    03 January 2018, pp. 289-290
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  • Inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and SSRIs

  • W. P. Bouman, H. Johnson, G. Pinner
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    02 January 2018, pp. 88-89
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  • Psychiatry and the politics of the underclass

  • M. Shaw
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    03 January 2018, p. 191
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  • Impact on caregivers of the symptoms of dementia

  • S. Thacker, P Gilbert
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    03 January 2018, p. 483
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  • Early detection of schizophrenia

  • J. van Os, N. Takei, H. Verdoux, P. Delespaul
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    03 January 2018, p. 579
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  • Seasonal variation in bipolar disorder

  • J. L. Pio-Abreu
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    03 January 2018, pp. 483-484
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  • Terminology of learning disability

  • R. Davey
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    03 January 2018, p. 579
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  • S. Seneviratne
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    03 January 2018, p. 191
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  • Recovered memories

  • C. R. Brewin
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    03 January 2018, p. 388
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  • Outcome of panic disorder

  • R. Tyrer, N. Selvewright, B. Ferguson, T. Johnson
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    02 January 2018, p. 89
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  • Urine screening for drugs

  • R. Browne, D. Sloan, S. Fahy, D. Talbot, J. O'Connor
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    03 January 2018, p. 290
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  • [No Title]

  • L. Culliford
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    03 January 2018, p. 191
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