Voluntary self-poisoning as a cause of admission to a tertiary hospital internal medicine clinic Piraeus, Greece within a year

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Tountas, Charalambos ^a   Sotiropoulos, Alexios ^b   Skliros, Stathis A ^c   Kotsini, Vasiliki ^b   Peppas, Theodoros A ^b   Tamvakos, Elias ^b   Pappas, Stavros ^b  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DRUG INTOXICATION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF POISONING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 2642541748     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-1-4     Document Type: Article

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