Changes in choice of method and lethality between last attempted and completed suicides: How did suicide àttempters carry out their desire?

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 150-158

  Nishimura, Akiyoshi ^a,b   Shioiri, Toshiki ^c   Nushida, Hideyuki ^b,d   Ueno, Yasuhiro ^b,d   Ushiyama, Ikuko ^a   Tanegashima, Akio ^b,e   Someya, Toshiyuki ^c   Nishi, Katsuji ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Medical Examiner's Office of Hyogo Prefecture   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attempted suicide; Completed suicide; Lethality score; Medical examiner; Suicide method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004480564     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80028-5     Document Type: Article

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