Contacts of suicide attempters with healthcare services in Pecs and Bern in the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-8

  Osvath, Peter ^a,c   Michel, Konrad ^b   Fekete, Sandor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Attempted suicide; Multicentre study; Prevention; Primary healthcare

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF POISONING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SWITZERLAND; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0346668348     PISSN: 13651501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13651500310001004     Document Type: Article

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