Mortality, Rehospitalisation and Violent Crime in Forensic Psychiatric Patients Discharged from Hospital: Rates and Risk Factors.

OBJECTIVES:To determine rates and risk factors for adverse outcomes in patients discharged from forensic psychiatric services. METHOD:We conducted a historical cohort study of all 6,520 psychiatric patients discharged from forensic psychiatric hospitals between 1973 and 2009 in Sweden. We calculated...

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Main Authors: Seena Fazel, Achim Wolf, Zuzanna Fimińska, Henrik Larsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4873227?pdf=render