Mortality among psychiatric patients--the groups at risk.

N, Zilber; N, Schufman; Y, Lerner

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1989.tb10254.x

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Mortality among psychiatric patients--the groups at risk.

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Authors:

Zilber N

Schufman N

Lerner Y

Abstract

This study examined standardized mortality ratios (SMR) among the patients who had undergone psychiatric hospitalization in Israel in 1978. The size of the sample (83,175 person-years) allowed us to calculate simultaneously SMR by age, sex, diagnosis and cause of death. The global SMR was 2.3 and de...

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