Completed suicide among older patients in primary care practices: A controlled study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-29

  Conwell, Yeates ^a,b,c   Lyness, Jeffrey M ^a   Duberstein, Paul ^a,b   Cox, Christopher ^a   Seidlitz, Larry ^a,b   DiGiorgio, Andrea ^a,b   Caine, Eric D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective disorder; Depression; Primary care; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0033988841     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb03024.x     Document Type: Article

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