Investigation into the cause of death of a 56-year-old man with serious mental illness

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 453-456

  Prochaska, Judith J ^a   Schane, Rebecca ^a   Leek, Desiree ^a   Hall, Stephen E ^a   Hall, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DOXYLAMINE; HYDROCODONE; ILLICIT DRUG; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; TRAZODONE;

ABRASION; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABUSE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBESITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CORONER; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POLICE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; SMOKING;

EID: 43349085550     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07091455     Document Type: Article

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