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To assess mortality rates and leading causes of death among patients hospitalized with mental disease in comparison to the general population.

January 5, 1935JAMA

Mortality Among Patients with Mental Disease

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Observational study reveals a fivefold excess mortality rate in hospitalized psychiatric patients compared to the general population, highlighting severe physical health disparities.

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To assess mortality rates and leading causes of death among patients hospitalized with mental disease in comparison to the general population.
Analyzed mortality statistics and cause-of-death registries from patients admitted to New York civil state hospitals across three fiscal years (July 1, 1928–June 30, 1931).
Compared mortality rates of institutionalized psychiatric patients directly against the general population of upstate New York, adjusting for age differences.
Psychiatric inpatients demonstrated an age-adjusted mortality rate nearly five times higher than that of the general population (excess mortality ratio of almost 5:1).
Mortality rates varied substantially across diagnostic categories, reaching the highest levels in patients with organic psychoses and the lowest levels in the functional group.
Differences were observed in the relative distribution of causes of death between institutionalized patients and the general population.

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A 1935 study studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1976bef2eb401dc7892002 https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1935.02760010073033

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Observational study reveals a fivefold excess mortality rate in hospitalized psychiatric patients compared to the general population, highlighting severe physical health disparities.

Mortality Among Patients with Mental Disease

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