Use of antidepressants in deliberate self-poisoning - Psychiatric diagnoses and drugs used between 1987 and 1997 in Lund, Sweden

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 684-689

  Bäckman, Jakob ^a   Ekman, Carl Johan ^a   Alsén, Margot ^a   Ekedahl, Anders ^b   Träskman Bendz, Lil ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Depression; Follow up; Self poisoning; SSRI

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG MARKETING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; SELF POISONING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SWEDEN;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; PATIENT ADMISSION; POISONING; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SWEDEN;

EID: 18544391244     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0688-2     Document Type: Article

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