The lifetime risk of suicide in schizophrenia: A reexamination

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-253

  Palmer, Brian A ^a   Pankratz, V Shane ^b   Bostwick, John Michael ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEDLINE; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PUBLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HOSPITALIZATION; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; STATISTICS;

AGE OF ONSET; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE;

EID: 14844364096     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.62.3.247     Document Type: Review

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