ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1995
Period trends in rate of suicide in first 28 days after discharge from psychiatric hospital in Scotland, 1968-92.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04907669 (An Implementation Study of Suicide Risk Management Among Discharged Psychiatric Patients Based on Brief Contact Interventions and Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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An Implementation Study of Suicide Risk Management Among Discharged Psychiatric Patients Based on Brief Contact Interventions and Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Adolescents hospitalised for suicidality: biomarkers, social and affective predictors: a cohort study.BMJ open · 2022Article
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- The effect of sex on suicide risk during and after psychiatric inpatient care in 12 countries-An ecological study.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Article
- Taking care of suicidal patients with new technologies and reaching-out means in the post-discharge period.World journal of psychiatry · 2017Review
- Genetic and familial environmental effects on suicide--an adoption study of siblings.PloS one · 2013Article
- Suicide in high security hospital patients.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2011Article
- Are psychiatrist characteristics associated with postdischarge suicide of schizophrenia patients?Schizophrenia bulletin · 2009Article
- Hospital admissions for self harm after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care: cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2008Article
- The characteristics of suicides within a week of discharge after psychiatric hospitalisation - a nationwide register study.BMC psychiatry · 2005Article
- Suicide and homicide by people with mental illness.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
- Suicide within 12 months of contact with mental health services: national clinical survey.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999Article
- Suicide in the 12 months after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care, Scotland 1968-92.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 1997Article
- Suicide after discharge from psychiatric hospitals in Scotland.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1995Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine period trends in the rate of suicide in the first 28 days after discharge from psychiatric hospital.
designCohort study of patients discharged from psychiatric hospital.
settingScotland. SUBJECTS: All patients aged 15-84 who were discharged from Scottish psychiatric hospitals during 1968 to 1992. OUTCOME MEASURE: The rate of suicide (classified as codes E950-9 and E980-9 according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision) within 28 days of discharge per 100,000 person years at risk for five year periods during 1968 to 1992. Crude, within cohort rates and externally standardised rates were calculated.
resultsOverall, 196 male patients committed suicide in 20,520 person years at risk, and 171 female patients committed suicide in 24,114 person years at risk. A significant linear trend was seen in period effect on externally standardised mortality ratios in both sexes: a decrease in male patients (P = 0.008) and an increase in female patients (P = 0.0001). The adjusted standardised mortality ratio in 1988-92 compared with 1968-72 was 0.62 (95% confidence interval 0.39 to 0.98) in male patients and 2.73 (1.64 to 4.56) in female patients.
conclusionThe increase in the rate of suicide in the 28 days after discharge in female psychiatric patients makes this an increasingly important period to target. The rise has occurred against the background of a reduction of 60% in the number of psychiatric beds for adults.
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