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Mortality among people with mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Francesco Amaddeo  and
Michele Tansella
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Mortality among psychiatric patients has been found to be higher than the general population, not only in those long-term residents in old-fashioned psychiatric hospitals or attending hospital-based psychiatric services (Harris & Barraclough, 1998) but also in those treated in modern community-based systems of care (Amaddeo et al., 1995; Grigoletti et al., 2009).

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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