Substance abuse-related mortality among middle-aged male VA psychiatric patients

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 290-296

  Rosen, Craig S ^a,b   Kuhn, Eric ^c   Greenbaum, Mark A ^c   Drescher, Kent D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MENTAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; ADDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VETERANS;

EID: 85047682772     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2008.59.3.290     Document Type: Article

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