Swaraj S, et al. - Given significantly higher rates of suicide among people discharged from inpatient psychiatric facilities and a growing concern about natural mortality among the seriously mentally ill, researchers conducted this meta-analysis of English-language, peer-reviewed longitudinal studies of mortality among patients discharged from inpatient psychiatric facilities to calculate pooled mortality rates for aggregated natural and unnatural causes, and the specific causes of suicide, accident, homicide, vascular, neoplastic, respiratory, gastrointestinal, infectious and metabolic death. The outcomes indicate that following discharge from inpatient psychiatric facilities, suicide may be the greatest single cause of death in the short term, however, the major cause of mortality in the medium and long term was vascular disease.