Health Care Contacts in the Year Before Suicide Death
Health Care Contacts in the Year Before Suicide Death
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DOI:
10.1007/s11606-014-2767-3
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发表时间:
2014-06-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Solberg, Leif I.
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作者:
Ahmedani, Brian K.;Simon, Gregory E.;Solberg, Leif I.
BACKGROUND: Suicide prevention is a public health priority, but no data on the health care individuals receive prior to death are available from large representative United States population samples.OBJECTIVE: To investigate variation in the types and timing of health services received in the year prior to suicide, and determine whether a mental health condition was diagnosed.DESIGN: Longitudinal study from 2000 to 2010 within eight Mental Health Research Network health care systems serving eight states.PARTICIPANTS: In all, 5,894 individuals who died by suicide, and were health plan members in the year before death.MAIN MEASURES: Health system contacts in the year before death. Medical record, insurance claim, and mortality records were linked via the Virtual Data Warehouse, a federated data system at each site.KEY RESULTS: Nearly all individuals received health care in the year prior to death (83 %), but half did not have a mental health diagnosis. Only 24 % had a mental health diagnosis in the 4-week period prior to death. Medical specialty and primary care visits without a mental health diagnosis were the most common visit types. The individuals more likely to make a visit in the year prior to death (p