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Research article:

Short- and long-term risk of premature death in a nationally representative cohort of primary care patients with history of self-harm

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Matthew J. Carr, Darren M. Ashcroft, Evangelos Kontopantelis, David While, Yvonne Awenat, Jayne Cooper, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Nav Kapur, Roger T. Webb (2016) Short- and long-term risk of premature death in a nationally representative cohort of primary care patients with history of self-harm. BMJ, doi:

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Abstract
Objectives: To examine premature mortality in a nationally representative cohort of primary care patients who have harmed themselves, and to estimate relative risks versus the general population stratified by follow-up time from first to tenth year. Design: Matched cohort study. Setting: 385 general practices in England contributing data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) during 2001-2013 with linkage to national mortality records. Population: Index cohort of 30,017 persons aged 15-64 years with a record of self-harm; comparison cohort, sampled from the same population, consisting of 600,258 persons with no record of self-harm and matched to index patients on age (year of birth), gender and registered general practice. Main outcome measures: Hazards ratios for all-cause and cause-specific mortality, including unnatural vs. natural death, suicide, intentional vs. accidental poisoning, and alcohol-related death. Results: We found greatly raised risk of dying prematurely from any cause among members of the self-harm cohort, especially so during the first follow-up year: hazard ratio (HR) 9.9, 95% confidence interval (CI) 8.6 to 11.4. The elevation in suicide risk within a year was especially great (HR 113.9, CI 73.9 to 175.6). Beyond the first follow-up year, suicide risk declined sharply but remained much higher than in the comparison cohort. Large risk elevations throughout the follow-up period were observed for accidental self-poisoning and alcohol-related death. Conclusions: Primary care patients who have harmed themselves are at greatly increased risk of dying prematurely by suicide and by other causes, and especially so within a year of the index episode. Relatively frequent general practice attendance by these individuals presents a clear opportunity for preventive action in primary care. National clinical guidelines could provide more specific recommendations for how primary healthcare teams can monitor, intervene and manage risk in these patients more effectively.
Author for correspondence
Matthew J Carr
Email for correspondence
matthew.carr@manchester.ac.uk

Code list: res41: smoking

62 codes in list

Code Coding system Description Entity type List name
137..00 Read Tobacco consumption diagnostic res41: smoking
1371.00 Read Never smoked tobacco diagnostic res41: smoking
137..11 Read Smoker - amount smoked diagnostic res41: smoking
1371.11 Read Non-smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
1372.00 Read Trivial smoker - < 1 cig/day diagnostic res41: smoking
1372.11 Read Occasional smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
1373.00 Read Light smoker - 1-9 cigs/day diagnostic res41: smoking
1374.00 Read Moderate smoker - 10-19 cigs/d diagnostic res41: smoking
1375.00 Read Heavy smoker - 20-39 cigs/day diagnostic res41: smoking
1376.00 Read Very heavy smoker - 40+cigs/d diagnostic res41: smoking
1377.00 Read Ex-trivial smoker (<1/day) diagnostic res41: smoking
1378.00 Read Ex-light smoker (1-9/day) diagnostic res41: smoking
1379.00 Read Ex-moderate smoker (10-19/day) diagnostic res41: smoking
137a.00 Read Pipe tobacco consumption diagnostic res41: smoking
137A.00 Read Ex-heavy smoker (20-39/day) diagnostic res41: smoking
137b.00 Read Ready to stop smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137B.00 Read Ex-very heavy smoker (40+/day) diagnostic res41: smoking
137c.00 Read Thinking about stopping smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137C.00 Read Keeps trying to stop smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137d.00 Read Not interested in stopping smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137D.00 Read Admitted tobacco cons untrue ? diagnostic res41: smoking
137e.00 Read Smoking restarted diagnostic res41: smoking
137E.00 Read Tobacco consumption unknown diagnostic res41: smoking
137F.00 Read Ex-smoker - amount unknown diagnostic res41: smoking
137G.00 Read Trying to give up smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137H.00 Read Pipe smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137I.00 Read Passive smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137j.00 Read Ex-cigarette smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137J.00 Read Cigar smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137K.00 Read Stopped smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137K000 Read Recently stopped smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137l.00 Read Ex roll-up cigarette smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137L.00 Read Current non-smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137m.00 Read Failed attempt to stop smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137M.00 Read Rolls own cigarettes diagnostic res41: smoking
137N.00 Read Ex pipe smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137O.00 Read Ex cigar smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137P.00 Read Cigarette smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137P.11 Read Smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137Q.00 Read Smoking started diagnostic res41: smoking
137Q.11 Read Smoking restarted diagnostic res41: smoking
137R.00 Read Current smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137S.00 Read Ex smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137T.00 Read Date ceased smoking diagnostic res41: smoking
137U.00 Read Not a passive smoker diagnostic res41: smoking
137V.00 Read Smoking reduced diagnostic res41: smoking
137W.00 Read Chews tobacco diagnostic res41: smoking
137X.00 Read Cigarette consumption diagnostic res41: smoking
137Y.00 Read Cigar consumption diagnostic res41: smoking
137Z.00 Read Tobacco consumption NOS diagnostic res41: smoking
8CAL.00 Read Smoking cessation advice diagnostic res41: smoking
8H7i.00 Read Referral to smoking cessation advisor diagnostic res41: smoking
8HkQ.00 Read Referral to NHS stop smoking service diagnostic res41: smoking
8HTK.00 Read Referral to stop-smoking clinic diagnostic res41: smoking
8IAj.00 Read Smoking cessation advice declined diagnostic res41: smoking
9km..00 Read Ex-smoker annual review - enhanced services administration diagnostic res41: smoking
9km..11 Read Ex-smoker annual review diagnostic res41: smoking
9kn..00 Read Non-smoker annual review - enhanced services administration diagnostic res41: smoking
9kn..11 Read Non-smoker annual review diagnostic res41: smoking
9ko..00 Read Current smoker annual review - enhanced services admin diagnostic res41: smoking
9ko..11 Read Current smoker annual review diagnostic res41: smoking
9NS0200 Read Referral for smoking cessation service offered diagnostic res41: smoking

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