Resource Tag: INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES

Objective To report the annual and cumulative recorded diagnostic rates and incidence proportions of SRD, as well as mortality rate ratios (MRRs) by cause of death among this group in Canada, according to their province of residence. Methods Analyses were performed on linked administrative health databases (AHD; physician claims, hospitalizations, and vital statistics) in five […]

BACKGROUND: Suicidal outcomes, including ideation, attempt, and completed suicide, are an important drug safety issue, though few epidemiological studies address the accuracy of suicidal outcome ascertainment. Our primary objective was to evaluate validated methods for suicidal outcome classification in electronic health care database studies. METHODS: We performed a systematic review of PubMed and EMBASE to […]

Durkheim’s nineteenth-century analysis of national suicide rates dismissed prior concerns about mortality data fidelity. Over the intervening century, evidence documenting various types of error in suicide data has only mounted & surprising levels of such error continue to be routinely uncovered. Yet the annual suicide rate remains the most widely used population-level suicide metric troday. […]

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In this editorial, the authors discuss the way suicidal behaviour is currently classified in the DSM-IV – only as a symptom in the context of Major Depressive Episode or of Borderline Personality Disorder. They recommend that suicidal behaviour be considered a separate diagnostic category & documented on a sixth axis. (16 refs.)

In this editorial, the authors recommend that suicidal behaviour be considered a separate diagnostic category documented on a sixth axis in the DSM-V. Conceptual & practical reasons for their recommendation are briefly discussed. (5 refs.)

In this letter to the editor, Isacsson comments on a previous study by Reseland et al (2006) on suicide & the use of antidepressants in the four Nordic countries. Isacssson notes the classification of deaths was changed in 1969 with the introduction of the category of uncertain cause of death in ICD-8 &, therefore, some […]

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All psychiatric inpatients in Denmark who had received a diagnosis of a single depressive episode at their first discharge between 1994-1999 were identified. The risk of relapse & the risk of suicide were compared for patients discharged with an ICD-10 diagnosis of a single mild (1103 patients), moderate (3182 patients) or severe (2914 patients) depressive […]

Please see SIEC #2006-0927 for Kessing’s study.

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Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

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High prevalence estimates in epidemiological surveys have led to concerns that the DSM system is overly inclusive & that mild cases should be excluded from future DSM editions. This article demonstrates that DSM-III-R disorders can be placed on a severity gradient that has a dose-response relationship with outcomes assessed a decade later, & that no […]

This study examined external cause-of-injury & poisoning codes from American Indian Health Service hospital records in order to evaluate the usefulness of International Classification of Diseases coding. Of the 10,921 hospital discharge records with at least one injury-related diagnosis or health service code, 7.3% were coded as suicide/attempt. The authors conclude that this coding was […]

This chapter explores the value of psychiatric disorders as a predictive variable for suicide. It starts with a discussion of the classification of psychiatric disorders & suicidal behaviors, summarizes recent studies investigating the link or association between psychiatric disorders & suicide, proposes various explanations of the nature of these associations, & offers some broad conclusions […]

This paper considers the results of long term follow up studies of patients originally diagnosed as borderline personality disorders by DSM criteria.

This Editorial summarizes the main points of the controversy surrounding reports that panic disorders are associated with greatly elevated risk for suicide attempts. It discusses panic disorders & panic attacks, & summarizes community studies & clinical studies examining panic disorder & nonfatal suicidal behaviour. It notes the central questions raised by these studies & draws […]

The authors compared 4 measures of poisoning incidence by studying a case series at 2 urban hospitals. In multiple logistic regression, factors of age, hospital admission, suicidal intent, principal poisoning or overdose type, & mixed drug overdose were statistically significnat predictors of case match or report varying by surveillance measure. Findings indicate that common surveillance […]

This article reports on the evidence for the validity of psychotic major depression as a distinct subtype based on cross sectional and 1 year prospective data from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. Consistent with findings from previous clinical studies, only about 14% of major depressions were accompanied by psychotic features. (36 refs.)

Clinical characteristics of 21 psychiatric military inpatients suffering from narcissistic personality disorder were compared to 42 inpatients with other personality disorders. Narcissistic patients tended to sexually abuse children, especially stepchildren, & they were more likely to be undergoing a separation, divorce or rejection (which usually led to hospital admission because of a suicide attempt or […]