Citation

Steer RA, Brown GK, Beck AT. Psychol. Rep. 2006; 99(2): 462-464.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Straford 08084-1391, USA. steer@umdnj.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17153814

Abstract

To ascertain whether the daily hazard risk rate for committing suicide by psychiatric outpatients stabilizes over time, a parametric survival analysis was calculated for the 6891 outpatients who were followed by Brown, Beck, Steer, and Grisham. Approximately 3 1/4 years after a patient's initial evaluation, the daily hazard rate leveled off and dropped below the hazard rate that would occur if a constant (exponential) daily hazard rate were assumed. The cost-effectiveness of conducting follow-up studies to identify suicidal risk factors in psychiatric outpatients beyond three years was questioned.

Language: en