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another concern, but validation based on medical records of clinical schizophrenia diagnoses in Stockholm County estimated that 80%-85% of these met the operational diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised. uring the study period there were important changes in psychiatric care offered to patients with schizophrenia: outpatient treatment replaced long term inpatient care. In Stockholm between 1976 and 1994, the number of hospital bed days associated with schizophrenia fell by 64%, and this reduction in beds is the most probable explanation for the rising mortality. The same conclusion was drawn in a Danish study reporting increasing mortality from suicide. 3 Our findings emphasise the importance of monitoring trends in mortality for patients with schizophrenia as well as for other patient groups as indicators of outcome and quality of psychiatric and medical care.