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Mortality in the long‐stay population of all Dutch mental hospitals
Author(s) -
Giel R.,
Dijk S.,
WeerdenDijkstra J. R. van
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1978.tb06904.x
Subject(s) - medicine , population , cohort , demography , disease , mental disease , epidemiology , malignancy , cohort study , pediatrics , emergency medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology
A study of 1,506 deaths reported over a period of 2 years to the National Psychiatric Case Register of the Netherlands, on the total cohort of 17,211 long‐stay patients counted on prevalence day (31 December 1969), showed very much higher death‐rates than in the general population. Malignancy and cardiac disease were not so common, while respiratory disease was still common in inpatients.