Mortality in psychiatric hospital patients: A cohort analysis of prognostic factors

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1227-1235

  Valent, Marco ^a   Necozione, Stefano ^b   Busellu, Giampiero ^a   Borrelli, Giovanna ^a   Lepore, Anna Raffaella ^a   Madonna, Raffaella ^a   Altobelli, Emma ^a   Mattei, Antonella ^b   Torchio, Pierfederico ^c   Corrao, Giovanni ^c   Orio, Ferdinando Di ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031434106     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.6.1227     Document Type: Article

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