Citation

Lineberry TW, Allen JD, Nash J, Galardy CW. Compr. Psychiatry 2009; 50(6): 526-532.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. lineberry.timothy@mayo.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.01.004

PMID

19840590

PMCID

PMC2947158

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to define the extent of current and lifetime smoking by diagnostic groups and suicide risk as reason for admission in a geographically defined psychiatric inpatient cohort. DESIGN: The study used a population-based retrospective chart review. METHODS: Smoking status and discharge diagnoses for Olmsted County, Minnesota, inpatients aged 18 to 65 admitted for psychiatric hospitalization in 2004 and 2005 were abstracted from the electronic medical record. Diagnostic groups were compared to each other using chi(2) tests and Fisher exact test to analyze smoking status within the inpatient sample with significance defined as P

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