Suicide compared to other causes of mortality in physicians

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 146-153

  Torre, Dario M ^a   Wang, Nae Yuh ^a   Meoni, Lucy A ^a   Young, J Hunter ^a   Klag, Michael J ^a   Ford, Daniel E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; PHYSICIANS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 18544389707     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.35.2.146.62878     Document Type: Article

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