Ligature points and ligature types used by psychiatric inpatients who die by hanging anational study

Crisis

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 87-94

  Hunt, Isabelle M ^a   Windfuhr, Kirsten ^a   Shaw, Jenny ^a   Appleby, Louis ^a   Kapur, Nav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inpatient hanging; Ligature points; Ligatures; Psychiatric patients; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SUICIDE; WALES;

EID: 84861684470     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000117     Document Type: Article

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