An assessment of suicide in an urban VA Medical Center

Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 326-337

  Thompson, R ^a   Kane, V R ^a   Sayers, S L ^a   Brown, G K ^a   Coyne, J C ^a   Katz, I R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOLDIER; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VETERAN;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; URBAN HEALTH; VETERANS;

EID: 0036983623     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.65.4.326.20234     Document Type: Article

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