Has anyone ever looked at the impact of involuntary commitment on suicidal ideation?
Patients recently discharged from psychiatric facilities were at particular risk of suicide, however all discharged patients face a high suicide rate and should have ongoing access to healthcare resources, Australian researchers reported.
According to a meta-analysis of 100 studies on post-discharge suicides, the pooled estimate discharge suicide rate was 484 per 100,000 person-years (95% CI 422-555, 95% prediction interval 89-2641, P<.001) with high between-sample heterogeneity, according to Daniel Thomas Chung, of University of New South Wales in Australia, and colleagues.
The suicide rate was highest within 3 months after discharge (1,132, 95% CI 874-1467) and among patients admitted with suicidal ideas or behaviors (2,078, 95% CI 1512-2856), they wrote in JAMA Psychiatry.
They noted that these rates were approximately 100 times and 200 times the global suicide rates, respectively.