Five-year mortality in a cohort of people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Teferra, Solomon ^a,d   Shibre, Teshome ^a   Fekadu, Abebaw ^a,e   Medhin, Girmay ^b   Wakwoya, Asfaw ^c   Alem, Atalay ^a   Kullgren, Gunnar ^d   Jacobsson, Lars ^d  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c Amanauel Specialized Mental Hospital   (Ethiopia)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUICIDE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 80053616787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-165     Document Type: Article

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