A community-based study of case fatality proportion among those who carry out suicide acts

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1005-1011

  Chen, Vincent Chin Hung ^a,b   Cheng, Andrew T A ^c   Tan, Happy K L ^d   Chen, Chung Ying ^b   Chen, Tony H H ^e   Stewart, Robert ^f   Prince, Martin ^f  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Tsaotun Psychiatric Center   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d TAOYUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case fatality; Deliberate self harm; Suicide

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HANGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PESTICIDES; POISONING; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TAIWAN;

EID: 70449528757     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0021-9     Document Type: Article

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