- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Gunshot suicides account for 2.5% of suicides in England and Wales. This amounts to more than 100 deaths per year. Information about such deaths may assist in the development of suicide prevention strategies. METHOD: We have examined coroners' inquest records for all gunshot suicides between 1st January 2000 and 31st December 2001 in 24 coroners' jurisdictions in England. RESULTS: Fifty-eight gunshot suicides were identified, including one homicide-suicide. Ninety-three per cent ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 324-328
- Publication date:
- 2005-04-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1433-9285
- ISSN:
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0933-7954
- URN:
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uuid:f07f6be2-fdea-4d46-a95a-195d3a5f4e86
- Source identifiers:
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168248
- Local pid:
- pubs:168248
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2005
Journal article
Gunshot suicides in England--a multicentre study based on coroners' records.
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