Unexpected Death of Psychiatric Patients: Suicide, misadventure, accident or unsolved mystery?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 210-214

  Salib, Emad ^a   Joseph, Ann ^a   Cawley, Sheila ^a  

^a Winwick Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031183531     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249703700305     Document Type: Article

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