Aging of severely mentally ill patients first admitted before or after the reorganization of psychiatric care in Sweden

Table 1 Sample sizes at each survey year for pre-reform and post-reform groups

Survey year	1996	2001	2006	2011
Pre-reform group
Participated	277	272	182	158
Did not participate	174	127	138	97
Died before survey^a	–	52	131	196
Total	451	451	451	451
Post-reform group
Participated	74	86	71	75
Did not participate	124	100	89	59
Died before survey	–	12	38	64
Total	198	198	198	198

^aDied before Survey indicates cumulative number of deaths to that year, i.e., an additional 79 people in the pre-reform group died between 2001 and 2006 for a total number of deaths prior to the 2006 survey of 131

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