Accuracy of official suicide mortality data in Queensland

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 815-822

  Williams, Ruth F G ^b,c   Doessel, Darrel P ^a   Sveticic, Jerneja ^a   De Leo, Diego ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data quality; Data reporting; Evaluation research; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; REGISTER; SUICIDE;

CLINICAL CODING; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUEENSLAND; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SUICIDE;

EID: 77956297934     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2010.483222     Document Type: Article

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