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- Title
Editorial: Mortality Risk and Related Adverse Outcomes Following Discharge From Inpatient Psychiatric Care.
- Authors
Nordentoft, Merete; Caine, Eric D.; Webb, Roger T.
- Abstract
Keywords: suicide; discharge; mental illness; prevention; mortality; psychiatry EN suicide discharge mental illness prevention mortality psychiatry 1 3 3 09/29/21 20210927 NES 210927 As emphasized by recent papers in I Frontiers in Psychiatry i , (cites) the suicides of persons recently discharged from psychiatric hospitalization remain among the most distressing and challenging events that confront our field. Suicide, discharge, mental illness, prevention, mortality, psychiatry In the field of suicide prevention, post-discharge suicide is among the most important problems because it affects a large risk group, and compared to the general population the post-discharge suicide rate is 2-400 times higher, with rates for men above 4,000 per 100,000 during the first post-discharge week ([3]).
- Subjects
INPATIENT care; MENTAL health services; MORTALITY; SUICIDE prevention; MEDICAL personnel
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, Vol 12, p1
- ISSN
1664-0640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2021.763342