Authors
Julian Trollor, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul, Han Xu, Sophie Howlett
Publication date
2017/2/1
Journal
BMJ open
Volume
7
Issue
2
Pages
e013489
Publisher
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Description
Objectives
To investigate mortality and its causes in adults over the age of 20 years with intellectual disability (ID).
Design, setting and participants
Retrospective population-based standardised mortality of the ID and Comparison cohorts. The ID cohort comprised 42 204 individuals who registered for disability services with ID as a primary or secondary diagnosis from 2005 to 2011 in New South Wales (NSW). The Comparison cohort was obtained from published deaths in NSW from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) from 2005 to 2011.
Main outcome measures
We measured and compared Age Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR), Comparative Mortality Figure (CMF), years of productive life lost (YPLL) and proportion of deaths with potentially avoidable causes in an ID cohort with an NSW general population cohort.
Results
There were 19 362 adults in the ID cohort which experienced 732 (4%) deaths at a …
Scholar articles
J Trollor, P Srasuebkul, H Xu, S Howlett - BMJ open, 2017