“Not only are these patients at markedly elevated risk of suicide,” he told Reuters Health by email, “but they also face substantially increased risks of dying from alcohol abuse, accidents, cancer, digestive system diseases, and other conditions.”
“The results should focus renewed attention on smoothing transitions from inpatient psychiatric care to outpatient mental health and medical care,” Dr. Olfson concluded. “Currently far too many psychiatric inpatients are lost to follow-up after hospital discharge.”
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