scholarly journals Excess Mortality from Chronic Physical Disease in Psychiatric Patients—The Forgotten Problem

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 749-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kisely
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Physical Disease

Cancer Mortality in Psychiatric Patients: The IOWA Record-Linkage Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald W. Black ◽  
George Winokur
Keyword(s):  
Record Linkage ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
Significant Excess ◽  
University Of Iowa ◽  
Organic Mental Disorders ◽  
The University

Of 5,412 patients admitted to the University of Iowa Psychiatric Hospital over a ten-year period, forty-six died of cancer during follow-up, which did not differ significantly from expected. Significant excess mortality from cancer was present within the first two years of follow-up. At risk during this period were women and patients with organic mental disorders. A review of relevant literature is presented.

The Influence of Consensus on the Assessment of Physical Disease in Chronic Community Psychiatric Patients

1989 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
A. Honig ◽  
E.S. Tan ◽  
P. Pop ◽  
H. Philipsen ◽  
R. de Wit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Physical Disease ◽  
Community Psychiatric

scholarly journals Death rate from ischaemic heart disease in Western Australian psychiatric patients 1980–1998

2003 ◽  
Vol 182 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Lawrence ◽  
Cashel D'Arcy ◽  
J. Holman ◽  
Assen V. Jablensky ◽  
Michael S. T. Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
General Population ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Ischaemic Heart Disease ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
People With Mental Illness

BackgroundPeople with mental illness suffer excess mortality due to physical illnesses.AimsTo investigate the association between mental illness and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) hospital admissions, revascularisation procedures and deaths.MethodA population-based record-linkage study of 210 129 users of mental health services in Western Australia during 1980–1998. IHD mortality rates, hospital admission rates and rates of revascularisation procedures were compared with those of the general population.ResultsIHD (not suicide) was the major cause of excess mortality in psychiatric patients. In contrast to the rate in the general population, the IHS mortality rate in psychiatric patients did not diminish over time. There was little difference in hospital admission rates for IHD between psychiatric patients and the general community, but much lower rates of revascularisation procedures with psychiatric patients, particularly in people with psychoses.ConclusionsPeople with mental illness do not receive an equitable level of intervention for IHD. More attention to their general medical care is needed.

Detecting Physical Disease in Psychiatric Patients

Medical Care ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S99-S99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorrin M. Koran ◽  
Harold C. Sox ◽  
Carol Hill Sox ◽  
Keith I. Marton
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Physical Disease

Excess Mortality Among Psychiatric Patients

JAMA ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 253 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald W. Black
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Psychiatric Patients

The Incidence of Cancer Among In-Patients with Affective Disorders

1974 ◽  
Vol 124 (583) ◽  
pp. 518-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. R. Evans ◽  
J. A. Baldwin ◽  
Dennis Gath
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Population ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Physical Disease ◽  
Incidence Of Cancer

Mortality rates in psychiatric patients have been reported as higher than those of the general population in Scandinavia (Odegaard, 1952), the United States (Gorwitz et al., 1966; Babigian and Odoroff, 1968), and Scotland (Innes and Millar, 1970). These findings may be related both to a greater prevalence of physical disease amongst psychiatric patients (Kay and Roth, 1955; Culpan et al., 1960; Shepherd et al., 1964; Kay and Bergman, 1966; Eastwood and Trevelyan, 1972) and to a greater frequency of suicide (Stenstedt, 1952; Stenstedt, 1959; Pokorny, 1964).

Obstructive asphyxia: a cause of excess mortality in psychiatric patients

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 88-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Corcoran ◽  
Dermot Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Patient Population ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Factors Associated

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to determine the number of deaths which were caused by choking in a 10 year period in the Irish psychiatric in-patient population and the factors associated with such deaths.

Excess mortality among psychiatric patients

JAMA ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 254 (3) ◽  
pp. 360b-360
Author(s):  
E. Masterson
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Psychiatric Patients
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