Practical geriatrics: Completed suicide in late life

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 260-262

  Loebel, J Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14744295162     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.56.3.260     Document Type: Short Survey

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