Availability, content and quality of local guidelines for the assessment of suicide attempters in university and general hospitals in the Netherlands

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 336-342

  Verwey, Bas ^a   van Waarde, Jeroen A ^a   van Rooij, Iris A L M ^a   Gerritsen, Gerard ^a   Zitman, Frans G ^b  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Availability; Guidelines; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE; GUIDELINES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 33745282927     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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