Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital
Inpatient suicide rates are seldom reported using age-standardized methods. This study aimed to estimate the standardized suicide rate in a general hospital. A total of 27 suicidal patients were identified by the adverse event reports during hospitalization from 1995 to 2004. Standardized suicide mo...
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| author | Mei-Chih Meg Tseng I-Chih Cheng Fu-Chang Hu |
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| description | Inpatient suicide rates are seldom reported using age-standardized methods. This study aimed to estimate the standardized suicide rate in a general hospital. A total of 27 suicidal patients were identified by the adverse event reports during hospitalization from 1995 to 2004. Standardized suicide mortality ratios (SMR) were examined using the Poisson regression model. The SMR of inpatient suicide was 8.25 (95% CI = 5.67-12.06). Hospital suicide rates were considerably higher than the corresponding general population rates for all age groups and were particularly high in age categories of 25-29, 30-34, 40-44, and 55-59 years after controlling for sex and calendar year. Hospitalized patients had an eight times higher risk of suicide mortality than that of the general population. While the elderly are at increased risk for suicide in the general population, young- and middle-aged patients are the age group at risk for suicide mortality during hospitalization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d66e3ce0a464c56a360d87bbf8ce8042022-12-21T17:32:49ZengElsevierJournal of the Formosan Medical Association0929-66462011-04-01110426726910.1016/S0929-6646(11)60040-5Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General HospitalMei-Chih Meg Tseng0I-Chih Cheng1Fu-Chang Hu2Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, and Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, TaiwanDepartment of Psychiatry, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, and National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanGraduate Insititute of Clinical Medicine and School of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanInpatient suicide rates are seldom reported using age-standardized methods. This study aimed to estimate the standardized suicide rate in a general hospital. A total of 27 suicidal patients were identified by the adverse event reports during hospitalization from 1995 to 2004. Standardized suicide mortality ratios (SMR) were examined using the Poisson regression model. The SMR of inpatient suicide was 8.25 (95% CI = 5.67-12.06). Hospital suicide rates were considerably higher than the corresponding general population rates for all age groups and were particularly high in age categories of 25-29, 30-34, 40-44, and 55-59 years after controlling for sex and calendar year. Hospitalized patients had an eight times higher risk of suicide mortality than that of the general population. While the elderly are at increased risk for suicide in the general population, young- and middle-aged patients are the age group at risk for suicide mortality during hospitalization.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664611600405general hospitalhospitalizationPoisson regression modelstandardized mortality ratiosuicide |
| spellingShingle | Mei-Chih Meg Tseng I-Chih Cheng Fu-Chang Hu Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital Journal of the Formosan Medical Association general hospital hospitalization Poisson regression model standardized mortality ratio suicide |
| title | Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital |
| title_full | Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital |
| title_fullStr | Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital |
| title_full_unstemmed | Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital |
| title_short | Standardized Mortality Ratio of Inpatient Suicide in a General Hospital |
| title_sort | standardized mortality ratio of inpatient suicide in a general hospital |
| topic | general hospital hospitalization Poisson regression model standardized mortality ratio suicide |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664611600405 |
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