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Suicide in psychiatric hospital in-patients. Risk factors and their predictive power.
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BACKGROUND: Psychiatric hospital in-patients are known to be at high risk of suicide, yet there is little reliable knowledge of risk factors or their predictive power. AIMS: To identify risk factors for suicide in psychiatric hospital in-patients and to evaluate their predictive power in detecting people at risk of suicide. METHOD: Using a case-control design, 112 people who committed suicide while in-patients in psychiatric hospitals were compared with 112 randomly selected controls. Univari...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
- Volume:
- 176
- Issue:
- MAR.
- Pages:
- 266-272
- Publication date:
- 2000-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1472-1465
- ISSN:
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0007-1250
- Source identifiers:
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165162
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:165162
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- pubs:165162
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- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2000
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